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On the recordOctober 21, 2019
HUD has been sitting on $8 billion in grant agreements since May. How can we complain, and how can the Federal agencies complain that we are not efficiently using the funds, when the money is not even in the island?
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Jenniffer González-Colón
Republican · Puerto Rico

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Gonzalez-Colon criticizes federal agencies for delays in disbursing funds to Puerto Rico.

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