Democrats ask Biden to create a group to help Puerto Rico after Fiona

A group of Democratic lawmakers, including the Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, this Friday they asked the president of USA, Joe Bidento establish a working group to help Puerto Rico to recover from damage hurricane fiona.

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The 18 Democrats, including senators and legislators from the Low cameraexpressed in a letter sent to the president that, five years after the devastating hurricane María, the fiona storm showed that the island “remains unacceptably vulnerable to natural disasters”.

“We urge you to focus resources for the long-term recovery of Puerto Rico”, asked the congressmen, who proposed to emulate the working group created by the former president Barack Obama (2009-2017) after Hurricane Sandy hit Louisiana in 2012.

This group, they said in the letter, should be “un high-level forum for coordination” of government agencies and “guarantee financing timing of disaster recovery programs.

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Also, I would have to “take into account the knowledge and experience of the local community” Y “leverage the resources of multiple agencies to provide technical support”they added.

Lawmakers stressed that Fiona has affected “disproportionately to rural and poor communities”, for what they consideredcrucial” that the Government of Biden support the most vulnerable populations.

“Your needs must be heard and understood what for Puerto Rico get a fair recovery”they told the president.

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The Governor of Puerto Rico, Peter Pierluisiaffirmed this Friday that the preliminary estimated damages caused by the hurricane fiona on the island, where it made landfall on September 18, could amount to 10,000 million dollars.

Source: Elcomercio

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