Puerto Rico would also get help for hurricane recovery. Disaster aid bills are invariably bipartisan, but this round bogged down. After weeks of fighting, Democrats bested Trump and won further aid to Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory slammed by back-to-back hurricanes in 2017. It wasn’t Democrats blocking it.”Schumer led a filibuster of an earlier version last month over Trump’s refusal to sign off on money to speed further disaster aid to Puerto Rico. The disaster aid bill was most urgently sought by southern Republicans such as Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, who want to help farmers who lost billions of dollars when Hurricane Michael hit last fall during harvest season.

Source: National Post May 23, 2019 18:12 UTC