An apartment unit with missing walls is seen at the Tutu
High Rise building after Hurricane Irma in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin
Islands on Sept. 12, 2017. (Photo: Michael
Nagle/Bloomberg)Companies rebuilding storm-damaged homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands under a federally funded program say they haven't been paid in months and are threatening to place liens on the houses.
The dispute highlights what critics call the slow pace at which the Trump administration has distributed aid money to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico following a string of devastating storms in 2017. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it's simply following the steps required to ensure the money is spent properly.
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