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San Juan Mayor to Trump: 'Things Are Not OK'
“The botched effort of this administration really has caused lasting pain and even more havoc than the hurricanes themselves,” Carmen Yulín Cruz tells CityLab ahead of the president’s first State of The Union address.
In the months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria wrecked Puerto Rico, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz took on the U.S. President, calling him “disaster-in-chief,”—harshly critiquing Washington’s response. He retorted on Twitter, dismissing her as a “politically motivated ingrate.”
On Tuesday, she was in Washington, D.C., to remind the president—and rest of the country—that the work to repair her commonwealth and heal her community is far from finished. Cruz attended the President’s first State of The Union address as a guest of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, hoping that her presence would refocus the conversation on the many ways Puerto Rico is still lacking.