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Arrested demanding congress provide more financial ate to the commonwealth. puerto rico claims it needs $94 billion in aid. congress appropriated 23 billion but less than 2 billion has been sent. >> i want to see shovels in the ground, houses being built to code. i want to see a power system under construction that will withstand the storm. reporter: mike burns says fema's effort has been unlike any hurricane response he's seen spending over $6 billion so far. $16 million has gone to san sebastian where the mayor blames san juan, not the feds. this town took control of the circumstances, and w...

Has meant six months since puerto rico was devastated by hurricane maria. tonight we continue to look at the recovery or lack of it there. correspondent bryan llenas is an old san juan with the story. >> we are treated as second-class citizens. >> puerto rico governor is frustrated. he said the hurricane maria disaster funds are taking too long to arrive and he blames congress. >> why is the same cop process in florida or texas, it takes a week, and puerto rico, it takes months. >> he is not alone. on tuesday, nearly two dozen puerto rican activists were arrested in the u.s. capital demanding ...

Pernicious effect on manufacturing in puerto rico because it imposes 12.5% tax on manufacturing there, treating puerto rico as if it were china, in effect. but here's what i think needs to be done. first of all, that provision needs to be repealed. second, the emergency supplemental relief package needs to specifically allocate the money -- the governor has requested $94 billion -- not just to repair but rebuild. provide the temporary shelters that are needed, but also the longer term housing, the electricity that makes use of renewables, like solar, not oil, and makes the transmission reliabl...

That struck the united states over these past few months and this past year. this $81 billion aid package that's been proposed, are you happy with it? >> well, it is not enough. as we all know the governor of puerto rico requested $94 billion. right here we have 81 among the virgin islands, puerto rico, california, texas, florida, and it doesn't provide a cost-sharing waiver for puerto rico. we all know that the government of puerto rico is insolvent and then on top of that, it doesn't do anything to address the medicaid. if we don't address the medicaid issue that puerto ricans are facing, mo...

Closer toes -- to dossier. this just days after the house intelligence committee sought contempt citations for the obama era doj and fbi, so that story widening. and remember when officials in puerto rico slammed president trump for not providing enough hurricane relief to the territory, well, now according to bloomberg, puerto rico's governor is handing out more than $100 million in christmas bonuses to government employees despite asking taxpayers to shell out $94 billion for federal -- for recovery efforts from the hurricane, one-third of that territory which was already $720 billion in deb...