Sentences with phrase «slow federal response»

Cuomo also criticized the slow federal response to devastation in Puerto Rico, saying the U.S. could have done much more, much sooner.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)-- Governor Andrew Cuomo has criticized the slow federal response to devastation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

The slow federal response, and President Trump's overall dismissiveness of the disaster, shed new light on the problem of having no real representation in Washington.

Not exact matches

One was in the 1990s when the Federal Reserve took action to slow economic growth in response to fears of inflation.

And while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

With the American federal government being criticized for a slow response, it has been up to the mayors of Puerto Rico to help the island and keep order and pressure on higher officials amid the devastation.

Trump made only passing reference to the devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, the federal government's response to which has been widely criticized as inadequate and slow.

Certainly, lawmakers will question state and federal officials about the slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls, and why the state Department of Health assured residents they could drink their water for a year before reversing that position.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a second trip to Puerto Rico Thursday to ferry supplies and personnel to the storm - ravaged U.S. territory and, upon his return, criticized the federal response as slow and insufficient.

In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk about the drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response — just slower moving.

In response, the 24 federal agencies that conduct research — from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — slowed the pace of lab work, instituted hiring freezes and cut grant programs.

Despite Mitt Romney's charge that «President Obama's policy response to every education challenge has been more federal spending,» on - budget K - 12 education expenditure has grown during Obama's first term at the slowest pace in two decades (aside from the massive, but unlikely to be repeated, infusions of ARRA and Edujobs).

Yellen, Janet L., «A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve's Response,» Speech given at «A Trans - Atlantic Agenda for Shared Prosperity» conference in Washington, DC, February 11, 2013.

That result, he and others argue, has been a sluggish response on the part of states to slow or stop the flow of federal funds by adopting shared parenting and paternity fraud legislation.