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Pelosi pledges to help speed Puerto Rico recovery during visit
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pledged to focus on further recovery efforts for Puerto Rico during a visit to the island territory on Friday.
Pelosi accused the federal government of not honoring its agreement with the island's more than 2 million U.S. citizens while addressing residents and reporters, as reported by The Associated Press.
“There is a contract with the federal government and people that was not fully honored, in my view,” Pelosi said. “We need perhaps in our legislating, in our advocacy, to find a way to speed things up, to cut red tape, to reduce bureaucratic obstacles…Time is the most valuable commodity. It makes a big difference in people’s lives.”
“There’s no excuse,” she added.
Pelosi slammed Republicans in Congress for not doing more while hundreds of Puerto Rico's residents remain without power and the island's congressional representative says that at least 28,000 people have been denied aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/399286-pelosi-pledges-aid-for-puerto-rico-during-visit