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the Trump Administration is ending a months long holds of

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more than$8 billion in disaster aid relief Congress appropriated

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for Puerto Rico A senior Department of Housing and Urban

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Development official confirmed early Wednesday the Department of Housing and

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Urban Development has been authorized to administer nearly$20 billion

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to the islands hurricane relief efforts through its Community development

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block grant. The money is intended to help Puerto

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Rico respond to the devastating hurricanes that ravaged it in

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2017. But Politico, which first reported the administration's

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decision, noted that the island has so far only

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received 1.5 billion. Puerto Rico will now be able

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to access the funds once H U D publishes a

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Federal Register notice on how it plans to distribute another

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8.2 billion, according to the news outlet.