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and a lot of that money has still not been spent. as of last month the island s government had only spent about $5.3 billion of the $28 billion fema allocated for post maria recovery. last year after declaring bankruptcy the government run power company privatized and effectively leased its infrastructure to a private company on a 15-year contract. that company was supposed to help repair and fortify the power system but residents say outages are still frequent if not actually worse than before. large protests against the company have become a regular occurrence. just last month puerto rico s governor whose own administration was behind the privatization denounced the company. so as dangerous as it is that puerto rico tonight is without power and clean water, it is unfortunately not unexpected. the governor says he expects restoration will take days not months like hurricane maria. as for water he also hopes that situation will improve by the end of the week. president biden assured pu

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