(Bloomberg) – President Trump administration's emergency management director said political infighting in Puerto Rico has slowed the pace of recovery from Hurricane Maria.
"Politics between Republicans and Democrats is bad enough — but in Puerto Rico, politics is even worse," Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said. "When you can't get elected officials at the local level to come to a joint field office because they disagree with the politics of the governor that's there, it makes things difficult."
FEMA head rejects criticism
Long, at a briefing with reporters Monday in Washington, rejected the criticism toward his agency's actions in Puerto Rico. "I fully believe we did everything we could," he said.
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