The Reminder: Warren requests funding for Puerto Rico

SPRINGFIELD - Although the relief situation in Puerto Rico is changing daily, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Richard Neal met with constituents in an hour-long Town Hall meeting to discuss the condition as of Sept. 29.

Warren said there is "a simple message [to describe the effort to help to date]: it's too little and it's coming too slowly."

Warren explained this she is looking ahead past the immediate relief needs to the island commonwealth's overall economy. "It was fragile economy even before the first winds picked up," she said.

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