Just in —
#BREAKING: Jones Act shipping waiver for Puerto Rico expires, will not being extended: Report https://t.co/X47G5mhP8P
â Breaking411 News (@breaking411) October 9, 2017
Puerto Rico needs food and water. President Trump just doubled the price they pay to receive both.https://t.co/2OjyizSdZD
â Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 9, 2017
With the 1920 law back in effect, the island will go back to paying much higher shipping costs to import supplies. The Jones Act requires that all goods shipped between U.S. ports be carried by American-owned and operated ships, which are more expensive vessels than others in the global marketplace. That’s meant that Puerto Rico pays double the costs for goods from the U.S. mainland compared with neighboring islands ― and that U.S. vessels are making bank.
The return to higher shipping costs won’t help Puerto Rico as it tries to climb out of economic devastation. Nearly half of the 3.4 million Americans on the island still don’t have drinking water since Maria hit nearly three weeks ago
JUST IN: White House lets Jones Act waiver expire for Puerto Rico, resuming shipping restrictions https://t.co/1QaT2FMF9R pic.twitter.com/LCPiLpymKD
â The Hill (@thehill) October 9, 2017
Meanwhile — Gov. Rossello requests larger funding package:
Gov. of Puerto Rico asks Congress for more federal funding for relief, recovery effortsâÂÂsays “the humanitarian crisis will deepen” without. pic.twitter.com/tOqTJucpBF
â Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 9, 2017
At @MSNBC outlining our petition to Congress pic.twitter.com/RPzQJSOqiu
â Ricardo Rossello (@ricardorossello) October 9, 2017
No words.
