A massive emergency aid bill for victims of hurricanes, wildfires, flooding and other natural disasters was defeated in the Senate on Monday amid a fight between Democrats and Trump over relief for Puerto Rico.
Trump weighed in on Twitter earlier Monday in support of the legislation, which was authored in part by Sen. David Perdue , one of his closest allies in the Senate.
But Democrats are furious over Trump's reluctance to send assistance to Puerto Rico, a stance the president has articulated in private meetings with aides and repeated last week in a closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans. "Republicans must remember that — just as we leave no soldier behind on the battlefield — we help our fellow Americans when there's a disaster, wherever the disaster strikes," Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer wrote in an opinion piece published in the New York Daily News over the weekend."We do not abandon them. Period. The president and Senate Republicans' actions on Puerto Rico can be described in only two words: cruel and nasty.
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