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Island's devastation puts Trump in critics' crosshairs

Jenny Mandel, E&E News reporter

Published: Wednesday, September 27, 2017

It will be a week before President Trump visits Puerto Rico to survey damage from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, even as he declared in a televised press conference yesterday that his administration is "totally focused" on the disaster and supplies are finding their way to the island "on an hourly basis."

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