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10/4 ☎️ #CallToAction: Puerto Rico needs aid but there are red-tape issues & cost problems. Congress must act! #PuertoRicoReliefNOW

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What to say & how to say it: ⬇️

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After a direct hit by #HurricaneMaria, the situation is #PuertoRico is apocalyptic. There is almost no power at all. washingtonpost.com/national/when-…
Acute shortages of food, water, fuel and medicine have created a humanitarian crisis in #PuertoRico.
abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/mill…
.@MiamiHerald described *45's admin’s response to the crisis in #PuertoRico as “slow, unenthusiastic and mean.” miamiherald.com/news/local/new…
*45’s tone-deaf remarks on his Tuesday visit to #PuertoRico were even worse than his insulting tweets. cnbc.com/2017/10/03/pre…
.@HispanicCaucus is calling for an additional aid package for Puerto Rico be taken up as early as this week.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
*45 issued a 10-day waiver of the #JonesAct, but many in Congress say a 1-year waiver is needed for Puerto Rico.
washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
Without the waiver, building and reconstruction supplies will cost twice as much in #PuertoRico as on the mainland. velazquez.house.gov/media-center/p…
Puerto Ricans are our fellow U.S. citizens and we must respond to their terrible circumstances as we did with people in Texas and Florida.
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