I want to thank you for holding the 'Puerto Rico's Post-Disaster Reconstruction & Power Grid Development' hearing last week.

There has been a change, a significant change, in the speed of the disbursements since the Biden administration came into office and my administration came to office.

To think that you can put that aside just because you are facing a public debt issue or facing a recession in Puerto Rico misses the point all together.

We are coming here to be treated the same as our fellow American citizens.

Well, one thing FEMA is doing is actually funding a public affairs campaign, public education campaign, encouraging people to build up to code.

There is oversight on LUMA from so many quarters.

The debt needs to be the lower the better.

the storm impacted many parts of the electrical grid and generation facilities island-wide.

We are devoting $1.3 billion of CDBG-DR funding for microgrids, distributed energy initiatives in remote communities.

The American citizens of Puerto Rico did not come to us after these disasters with their hands out.

We need to do public-private partnerships for both transmission and distribution and generation, and actually split the two so that there is no monopoly in Puerto Rico.