More than one hundred days after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Connecticut's congressional delegation said not enough has been done to help with recovery and rebuilding.
Connecticut senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal will travel to the island on Tuesday.
"This Island remains in crisis," Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal and fellow Democrat Murphy will journey to still-recovering Puerto Rico for two days, with plans to meet with the island's governor and to tour medical facilities in an effort to shine a light on what Blumenthal calls an 'inadequate federal response' to an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
"My colleagues in Congress, on both sides of the aisle, can do better for our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico," Blumenthal said.
The senators’ trip will also include a stop at a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. The travel is being paid for with 'official senate office funds', Blumenthal's office said.
Connecticut residents like Jhonathan Rivera, with deep ties to Puerto Rico, just wish that the help would get their sooner. Rivera's family is in Puerto Rico and his 97-year-old grandmother only recently had her electricity restored.
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"I think a lot more could have been done. And there's still a lot more to be done," Rivera, who leads the group Puerto Ricans United, Inc., said.
"They need to put the politics aside and just worry about the people there," said Rivera about the Blumenthal and Murphy trip to Puerto Rico.
