Sen. Warren Joins Sens. Menendez, Booker, In Urging Trump to Use Defense Production Act to Hasten Puerto Rico Response
Specifically, the senators requested the Federal Government use the
"As fuel and water supplies dwindle precariously low, damaged infrastructure from roads and bridges to ports and electrical lines exacerbate the already formidable challenges, and threaten to leave the island without power for months to come," the senators wrote. "This is a prediction that would never be acceptable on the mainland and it should not be acceptable for the American citizens living on
"The scale of this natural disaster creates serious national security implications and as such, demands the use of extraordinary measures," the senators continued. "The federal government has the transportation and logistics infrastructure to help alleviate the immediate and overwhelming crisis currently facing
Earlier this week,
The full text of the letter can be found here (https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Menendez-to-POTUS-Re-Defense-Protection-Authority-in-Puerto-Rico.pdf).
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