translated from Spanish: Legislators investigate response to hurricane in Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats of the House Oversight Committee requested documents from the federal government about Washington’s “abominable” response to the deadly hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands In 2017. Rep. Elijah Cummings, who chairs the panel, said the White House ignored his requests for storm-related documents when the Democrats were minority in the lower house. Now the Democrats are majority, and Cummings and other party members said they will press for a “credible and bipartisan” investigation of the government’s response to hurricanes, which left more than 3,000 dead and more than 100 billion of Dollars in damages. ” Despite the bipartisan history of the supervisory Committee… Republicans actively blocked all democratic requests over the past two years while President (Donald) Trump accumulated disdain for people who lost thousands of their loved ones, “the Democrats wrote in a letter to Mick Mulvaney, chief of interim office of the White House.

The government has managed to evade oversight of its poor response to hurricanes because the Republicans, who were majority in Congress, refused to play the role that the Constitution sends them, the Democrats denounced. The letter was sent as Congress and the White House disputed disaster relief in Puerto Rico and other areas ravaged by hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters. Trump has fought with Democratic officials around the island and has harshly criticized how Puerto Rico handled the response to hurricanes. A disaster relief measure is at stake for 14 billion dollars that is increasing _ which was blocked by Democrats in the Senate last month in a legislative paralysis with respect to Puerto Rico. Democrats are demanding additional funds to help repair the island’s water systems and to help it in more generous terms, taking into account the serious economic crisis it is going through. Trump has already authorized 600 million dollars in food aid, after cuts to Puerto Rico’s food benefits. ” Trump’s government is committed to the full recovery of Puerto Rico. The island has received unprecedented support and is on its way to receiving tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, “said Judd Deere, White House spokesperson, in an email. The Democrats said on Monday that the representative Republican Trey Gowdy, who presided over the supervisory panel over the past two years, refused to attend to Cummings’s multiple requests to be handed over to Trump government documents related With the passage of the hurricane. ” As a result the White House has never delivered a single sheet of paper to the Commission… Related to its response to hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, “the Democrats wrote.



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