Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.

From 2018 to 2020, Vought slowed the release of $16.5 billion in disaster aid to Puerto Rico by setting up extra hurdles, according to a federal investigation and a former Trump White House official.

Six days after Maria struck the island, conditions in Puerto Rico remain dire, with 3.4 million people virtually without electrical power and short of food and water.

The Trump administration has not yet given Puerto Rico $600 million in food stamp aid more than two weeks after the president signed the emergency funding into law, according to federal and ...

‘Nothing, nothing.’ Aid lags in hurricane-torn Puerto Rico RELATED: St. Petersburg family living in Puerto Rico trapped on island, running out of food ...

Puerto Rico is already reeling under a $72 billion (53.03 billion pounds) debt load it cannot pay. Earlier this year, it filed the biggest government bankruptcy in U.S. history, suffering from ...

The debate played out as the House passed, on a sweeping 353-69 vote, a $36.5 billion disaster aid package that includes assistance for Puerto Rico’s financially-strapped government.