RE: Mueller report. OP/ED
May 9, 2019 at 3:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2019 at 3:20 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:What has trump lied about? what has trump got wrong?...Again share with me SOMETHING factual and I will help you see (with documentation) a fake news spin.
Ok, spin this:
From Trump, 2 April of this year:
Quote:Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....
Politifact:
Quote:Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion...The federal government’s recovery website shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent...A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)
That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
So, Puerto Rico did not 'get' $91 billion. They've (so far) gotten $11.2 billion. The only additional monies your Congress has committed to spending are a further $8.2 billion.
He's also wrong when he claimed that the spending on Puerto Rico is a record. So far, Congress has spent (not merely allocated or promised) $120 billion on Katrina.
Have fun with that.
Boru
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