Amid lauding, silence on Puerto Rico; Trump praises 2017 hurricane response as new season begins
The president, who last fall said
"We really appreciate the job you've done," the president said Wednesday to officials and members of his
"The federal response, once again, was at a historic proportion," Sanders said, declining as before to say whether the
"I can't speak to how this
"Irrespective of what this
The sense that Bush botched the response to Katrina, especially in the hardest hit mostly
Trump, by contrast, has seemed to escape such judgment when it comes to the federal response in
Observers in both parties see a couple of forces at work: other controversies surrounding the president, and that much of the public does not think of the more than 3 million Puerto Ricans as fully Americans.
"Historically, when thousands of American lives are lost in large part due to government negligence, there would be some public backlash, congressional hearings, inspector general reports, and just some basic accountability so that it wouldn't happen again," said
The answer to why that hasn't happened regarding
On that visit, he told officials, "Now, I hate to tell you,
He continued: "If you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering - nobody has ever seen anything like this."
"Sixteen people versus in the thousands," he said. "You can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together."
The death toll from Katrina was 1,833 people.
In addition to the most recent study, by
The authors said, however, "this number is likely to be an underestimate," with the actual toll exceeding 5,000.
The estimate covers the months from
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