San Juan Mayor Says No One in Puerto Rico Has Received Their $1200 Coronavirus Stimulus Check
While speaking to MSNBC on Saturday, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico gave an update on how the U.S. territory is handling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz explained that Puerto Rico is facing a number of difficulties in its coronavirus recovery efforts—and that it is still waiting on stimulus checks. Cruz said:
“No one in Puerto Rico has received their $1200 coronavirus stimulus checks from the federal government. We’re having problems with a local $500 check that the governor said was going to be distributed.” In addition to that, she said the island has struggled to fulfill new requests for food stamps and over 130,000 pending unemployment requests.
On top of struggling to get resources to the people who need them most, Cruz says they have insufficient equipment and tests to check its residents for the virus.
“Money is not getting into people’s hands because of the current local government of Puerto Rico, and perhaps, guidelines that have not been distributed,” said Cruz. “But the problem is not getting the support that we need. The problem is that the support goes to the higher levels of government, and doesn’t reach the people that it’s supposed to reach.”
During her appearance on the news show, Cruz also criticized the President Trump’s lack of leadership during the pandemic. She denounced him for spreading false information about consuming disinfectants to curb the spread of the virus.
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