Vice President Harris vowed to launch “a new Puerto Rico Opportunity Economy Task Force” within the case she wins the presidency in a video posted Sunday to Instagram.
“As president, I will bring down the cost of housing, invest in small businesses and entrepreneurs and fight to finally secure equal access to programs that strengthen the health care system and support children, seniors and working people,” Harris stated within the video.
“I will create a new Puerto Rico Opportunity Economy Task Force, where the federal government will work with the private sector, with nonprofits and community leaders, to foster economic growth and create thousands of new, good paying jobs in Puerto Rico, including for our young people,” the vp added.
Puerto Rico has confronted hardships together with a debt disaster, devastation from Hurricane Maria and issues with its electrical grid all inside the final decade. The island additionally lacks voting energy in Congress, in addition to having no say with regards to who wins the White Home each 4 years (although Puerto Rico does take part in presidential primaries).
Harris’s video got here on the identical day as a speaker at a Trump rally went after the Caribbean island and U.S. territory, drawing backlash from her marketing campaign and different Democrats. In his feedback on the rally, comic Tony Hinchcliffe stated “I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,” including that he believes “it’s called Puerto Rico.”
In response to a clip from a Twitch stream that includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Harris’s operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), criticizing the feedback, Hinchcliffe stated in a submit on the social platform X Sunday that it’s “[w]ild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist.”
“I love Puerto Rico and vacation there,” Hinchcliffe added in his submit. “I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change your tampon.”
Puerto Rican rapper and celebrity Dangerous Bunny additionally shared Harris’s Instagram video that includes the feedback concerning the job power on his Instagram story Sunday.
