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On the recordNovember 13, 2017
We are the wealthiest, most powerful country in the history of the world. Do we really think that we are doing a great job when half the people in Puerto Rico and 80 percent of the people in the Virgin Islands still don't have electricity two months after the storm?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Questioning the effectiveness of disaster response in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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