Trump Sending Support To Puerto Rico
The Biden administration is once again reaching into American taxpayer pockets—this time to rescue Puerto Rico’s collapsing power grid. The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced emergency actions to prop up the island’s failing electrical infrastructure, just as summer demand begins to spike.
According to the DOE, Puerto Rico’s grid is in critical condition, citing recent island-wide blackouts, a lack of backup capacity, and an aging system teetering on the edge of collapse.
In April, a massive outage left the entire island in the dark for nearly 48 hours—crippling access to both electricity and clean water. The chaos followed a similar blackout on New Year’s Eve. And just this week, the private company managing the island’s energy generation, Genera PR, reported yet another outage—though smaller in scale—proving the system remains unstable.
Washington Spending, Local Mismanagement
While the Biden administration rushes in with more federal funding and temporary generators, critics argue this is just another band-aid paid for by hardworking Americans. The DOE’s plan includes placing mobile power units and trimming tree branches near transmission lines—hardly a long-term solution to a deep-rooted crisis.
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández, Puerto Rico’s non-voting representative in Congress, recently introduced legislation addressing the ongoing disaster. “Puerto Rico’s energy crisis is threatening our quality of life and economic survival,” he warned. Yet with no vote in Congress, Hernández’s bill may do little more than make headlines.
Taxpayers on the Hook Again
Conservative lawmakers and watchdogs are raising red flags over yet another costly federal intervention. They point to years of mismanagement, lack of reform, and dependency on Washington handouts as root causes of Puerto Rico’s chronic infrastructure failures.
“If there’s no accountability, this will just keep happening,” one energy policy expert warned. “Why should U.S. taxpayers be footing the bill for decades of local corruption and failed oversight?”
With summer just weeks away, power grid failure in Puerto Rico isn’t just a local issue—it’s another reminder of how federal overreach and wasteful spending continue to cost Americans more, while solving less.
