Rep. Velazquez Issues Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Take DOD Funds From Puerto Rico to Build Border Wall
September 04, 2019
September 04, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-New York, issued the following statement opposing the Trump administration's plan to take more than $402 million of Defense Department money from Puerto Rico to help fund the building of a border wall with Mexico:
"It is tragically ironic that as we approach the two-year anniversary of Maria and our fellow citizens continue struggling to recover, the President of the United States is effectively pulling the rug out from under th . . .
"It is tragically ironic that as we approach the two-year anniversary of Maria and our fellow citizens continue struggling to recover, the President of the United States is effectively pulling the rug out from under th . . .