Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients.

Puerto Rico is already reeling under a $72 billion (53.03 billion pounds) debt load it cannot pay. Earlier this year, it filed the biggest government bankruptcy in U.S. history, suffering from ...

From 2018 to 2020, Vought slowed the release of $16.5 billion in disaster aid to Puerto Rico by setting up extra hurdles, according to a federal investigation and a former Trump White House official.

The Trump administration has not yet given Puerto Rico $600 million in food stamp aid more than two weeks after the president signed the emergency funding into law, according to federal and ...