What are you fucking nuts or something??
It's been proven already.
$91 billion "is an estimate of [the money] to be allotted over the next 20 years."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-struggles-get-disaster-aid-amid-congress-trump-showdown-n990046
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/donald-trump-is-lying-about-puerto-rico.html
This still means they would get $91 billion. It might end up being more. A lot can change in 20 years. Remember how they grossly underestimated the cost of the Iraq war? So Trump is correct Puerto Rico got $91 billion.
To use an analogy for you: Let's say your salary per year is $100,000. Do you get all that money upfront? No you don't. But you are still getting $100,000 if you perform your job. If someone asks you how much you make you say I am making $100,000 per year don't you?
Douche bag!
The FactsGetting a full picture on federal government spending for Puerto Rico so far is difficult because it’s spread across different agencies and spending bills. But here’s the best possible estimate we received, as of March 27, after communications with officials in different agencies.
Federal Emergency Management Agency: $15 billion obligated ($9.9 billion in outlays)
Army Corps of Engineers: $2.5 billion approved ($3 million in outlays)
Community Development Block Grants-Disaster Recovery (Housing and Urban Development): $20 billion approved, of which $1.5 billion has been obligated
Small Business Administration: $1.95 billion for homes/business loans obligated ($1.1 billion in outlays)
Education Department: $710 million obligated ($28 million in outlays)
FEMA community disaster loans: $294 million obligated ($128 million in outlays)
Various other agencies: $266 million approved (lesser amounts in outlays)
That adds up to nearly $41 billion in announced funding. But notice words like “obligated” and “outlays”?
Here’s an explanation:
Outlays = money has been delivered
Obligated = spending has been identified but money not delivered
Approved = A budget allocation has been made, but money has not been obligated or disbursed.
About half of the money scheduled for Puerto Rico comes from the HUD grants. But virtually none of that funding has been spent yet. HUD in July said it had approved spending $1.5 billion but the funds had not been drawn down yet, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this month. About 50 percent has been earmarked for home repair and reconstruction.
A HUD official said Puerto Rico has the $1.5 billion in hand, but has spent just $42,000. “It should take Puerto Rico approximately two to three years to spend the $1.5 billion,” the official said. “Following Superstorm Sandy, the state of New Jersey disbursed $1 billion over the course of two years.”
Another $8.2 billion of the $20 billion HUD allocation was approved in February but not yet delivered. That still leaves about half of the $20 billion untouched.
In other words, depending on how you do the math, only about a quarter of the total pot of money has actually been spent on the island — $11.2 billion.
So how does Trump come up with $91 billion?
Officials told The Fact Checker that the president was referring to an internal Office of Management and Budget estimate of the potential liabilities over the life of the disaster that would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988. The estimate was described as a high-end estimate subject to change year by year.
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.
Notice that we said the additional $50 billion was “over the life of a disaster.” That means it’s a long-term figure, beyond the traditional 10-year budget horizon. Indeed, one congressional aide estimated that Stafford payments will continue for 20 years in Puerto Rico. The government is still paying for the damage from Hurricane Katrina almost 14 years after it struck New Orleans.
Texas has been allocated $25 billion, but its estimated Stafford liabilities are much smaller -- just $4 billion, according to the OMB estimate. Together, that adds up to $29 billion.
What apparently caught Trump’s attention was the relative scale — with the estimated long-term cost of Puerto Rican repairs potentially three times larger than the cost of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
