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Menendez: Trump Administration Gets Big Fat D On Puerto Rico

Alexandra Hill
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News

New Jersey’s Senior Senator Bob Menendez is heading back to Washington D. C. after wrapping up the third week of his corruption trial. Menendez spoke briefly to reporters outside the federal courthouse in downtown Newark today, and says the crisis in Puerto Rico is one of his top priorities. Menendez says  if he had to give the Trump administration a grade on their response to the island Menendez says, they would get a big fat D.

“As you saw the death toll rose, and I predicted that it would rise, because there are parts of Puerto Rico that are still inaccessible, so we don’t know what’s happening, and I pray to god that it doesn’t rise, but we saw it rise, so the comments that the President has made that everything is great and that everything is working well, that is not the reality.”

Menendez says he will be speaking on the senate floor upon his return to the nation’s capital to address the crisis in Puerto Rico, and says despite the ongoing trial his work in Washington continues.  

Alexandra Hill began her work with WBGO in June of 2012 in the news department. A graduate of the Rutgers Newark journalism program, Alexandra was also a student of WBGO News Director Doug Doyle. Alexandra has since become the lead general assignment reporter, afternoon news anchor, and producer of the award winning live call in show Newark Today. Since working for WBGO Alexandra has covered politics in and around Newark including the 2014 mayoral campaign of Mayor Ras Baraka as well as the senate campaigns of former Newark Mayor and now U.S. Senator Cory Booker in both 2013 and 2014. Alexandra also covers a host of human-interest stories, and has been recognized by the New York Association Of Black Journalists for her piece entitled Sheltering Newark’s Homeless.