Puerto Rico’s delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives has high praise for President Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria.
Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon, a member of the New Progressive Party, told USA Today that she was “really grateful” for Trump’s handling of the situation.
“I will tell you that everything that the president said that he was going to send to the island, it’s getting there. The resources are there. The help is there,” Colon said.
“I was very surprised that the president was very aware of the situation on the island, having daily briefings in the situation room,” she also said. “He actually spoke with the governor once or twice a day, during the hurricane and after the hurricane.”
“There are things that I never do, but, you know, the president is always out of the script,” she added. “And I think that’s the main difference. People are used to having politicians that are politically correct, that follow the script, and he’s not like that. I mean, what you see is what you get, and that’s the way he is.”
“He instructed all his cabinet members to treat Puerto Rico as a state, in terms of this hurricane,” she continued. “I mean, that kind of instruction is important to have access to all those programs.”
Colon paints a starkly different picture of the situation in Puerto Rico than a few other elected officials, most notably San Juan Mayor and Hillary backer Carmen Yulin Cruz. However, President Trump has returned fire in response to Cruz’s widely believed politically-motivated attacks.
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