Senators Want to Know: Where Is Food Assistance for Puerto Rico?
Seven Democratic senators sent a letter to Sonny Perdue, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, asking for an explanation of the delay in disbursing funds for nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico.
Signers of the letter included Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Chris Murphy (D-CT).
Congress appropriated $600 million in additional nutrition assistance funds in June, but the funds are not expected to reach Puerto Rico until September. SNAP (food stamp) payments have been reduced since funds ran short in March.
“We are requesting information,” the Senators wrote, “as to why funds that Congress appropriated to respond to an emergency will take three months to reach the people of Puerto Rico.”
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