Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory.
Many of the families have disabilities or medical conditions that require electricity. Concern is growing that the U.S. will abandon them as chronic power outages persist and the Atlantic hurricane season officially nears — it runs from June 1-Nov. 30.
“For them in particular, whether they get a (solar) system or not is something that is really life or death,” Charlotte Gossett Navarro, Puerto Rico chief director for the Hispanic Federation, said in a phone interview.
Republicans: Why should we pay for some other country?
Whatever happened to no taxation without representation eh
It’s Puerto Rico, they have no representation
That’s just a meaningless slogan. Like “land of the free”.
Why the fuck isn’t Puerto Rico a full state?
the short of it is that the U.S. wants to keep treating them as a colony.
Likewise, some Hawaiians are strongly supporting independence because the islands were annexed without native consent. Therefore theoretically Puerto Rico takes Hawaii’s place should the latter secedes from the Union.
Who’s gonna tell them, those 350mil were used in corrupt conttacts? Is she gonna give the excuse that the previous administration was the one who accepted the money?
Sure, your president will be happy to kill them too.
Beat I can do is raise the price of oil by starting an illegal war
