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Schumer Calls on Trump to Step Up Puerto Rico Aid

By Thomas McKinless
Posted September 26, 2017 at 9:32pm

By Thomas McKinless

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Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that the island territory of Puerto Rico is in need of greater federal assistance and called on the White House to step up the aid being sent there. “I think relief efforts could do a whole lot better,” Schumer said.

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