Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.

Six days after Maria struck the island, conditions in Puerto Rico remain dire, with 3.4 million people virtually without electrical power and short of food and water.

She also has a mission. "I did it in memory of my father," she said. The mission to aid those still struggling because of Hurricane Maria which slammed Puerto Rico in September 2017.

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