The Fact Checker: It’s simply false for the president to assert that Puerto Rico has received $91 billion
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow May 7 at 10:00 AM “Puerto Rico has been given more money by Congress for Hurricane Disaster Relief, 91 Billion Dollars, than any State in the history of the U.S.”We originally wrote about Trump’s eye-popping claim that Puerto Rico had received $91 billion in aid back in March, when The Washington Post reported that he had raised this number in a meeting with Republican senators.
Currently, the estimated Stafford liabilities amount to $50 billion. Adding the $41 billion in announced funding to the $50 billion in Stafford liabilities gets you to $91 billion. While Trump describes this theoretical number as the highest ever given to a state, it’s important to remember that Puerto Rico is an island that received the full brunt of the storm. The Congressional Research Service says Congress “provided roughly $120 billion for Hurricane Katrina,” but that storm hit two states — Louisiana and Alabama.
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