WASHINGTON ― Top associates of President Donald Trump on Sunday joined his new campaign against the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan, over her appeals for quicker federal help following Hurricane Maria. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has said millions of stranded people are not getting the food and water they need and used media opportunities to say the Trump administration could do more. Even as federal support was reportedly increasing Sunday, Trump officials were prolonging the feud between the president ― spending his weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey ― and the mayor working around the clock amid dire conditions. It’s unfortunate that the Puerto Rico mayor wants to ― excuse me ― the San Juan mayor wants to sort of go against the grain,” Mulvaney said. Many of the Trump surrogates appearing on the Sunday talk shows noted that other mayors and Puerto Rican officials, including Gov.

Source: Huffington Post October 01, 2017 19:18 UTC