If these cuts were to remain unchanged, it would mean that the Office of Insular Affairs would not be able to award any more Technical Assistance grants for the remaining seven months of this fiscal year.
Warns about the impact of budget cuts on Technical Assistance grants for insular areas.
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Last month, I formally requested emergency assistance from FEMA to stabilize our power system by providing additional generation assets and accelerating work on our transmission and distribution grid.
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.
Let's have that solar farm provide the power for the households and businesses in that area.
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