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Here’s what that does.</h1> </div> <wp-ad id="slug_tiffany_tile" data-ad-type="tiffany_tile" class="hidden-xs right"></wp-ad> </div> <div id="essentials-topperx" style="display: none;"></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div></section> <section id="main-content" class="col-xl-9 col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 col-xs-offset-0 col-sm-offset-0 col-md-offset-0 col-lg-offset-0 layout"> <div class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-deck" moat-id="article/article-deck|politics" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-name="no-name" data-feature-id="article/article-deck" data-pb-fingerprint="0fTQxGB0JpP" id="fw5mxe2IZgmwyq"> <div id="article-deck" class="article-deck"> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-body" moat-id="article/article-body|politics" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-name="no-name" data-feature-id="article/article-body" data-pb-fingerprint="0fsaJaXsip0" id="f0m0HIcIZgmwyq"> <div id="article-body" class="article-body content-format-default"> <div class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/amber-phillips/"><span itemprop="name">Amber Phillips</span></a></span> <span class="pb-byline-tool-mobile"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/amber-phillips/"><span itemprop="name">Amber Phillips</span></a></span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:amber.phillips@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'Trump just lifted the Jones Act for Puerto Rico. 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(Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p><em>This post has been updated throughout, specifically with news that the Trump administration is waiving the Jones Act, as well as comments from a congressman who will be holding an emergency hearing Thursday aimed at defending the Jones Act, which shipping advocates say isn't the reason Puerto Rico's recovery has stalled. We explain why below.</em></p> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">At <a href="https://twitter.com/ricardorossello?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ricardorossello</a> request, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately.</p> <p>— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/913373292832153600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>In the wake of Hurricane Maria, pretty much the entire island of Puerto Rico is dark, hot and running out of supplies — quickly.</p> <p>But if Puerto Rico wants supplies shipped from the mainland, it has to wait until American boats can reach its shores, thanks to a World War I-era shipping law that the Trump administration originally said it wasn't going to waive, then abruptly decided to lift on Thursday morning.</p> <p>Trump's hesitation on to waive the Jones Act caused him a political headache these past few days. It fed into a narrative that the president is aloof to Puerto Rico's problems, especially since his administration lifted the law to help Texas and Florida after hurricanes Harvey in August and Irma this month. (Supporters of the Jones Act say the thinking within the shipping industry is that the Trump administration lifted the Jones Act prematurely for Hurricane Harvey and that Florida needed only a little bit of help from foreign-owned ships.)</p> <p>Meanwhile, despite agitation from some powerful members of Congress to get rid of the law entirely so we don't keep having these debates after hurricanes, it's likely to stay on the books.</p> <p>Here's what you need to know about the Jones Act.</p> <p><strong>What the Jones Act does:</strong> It requires that ships going from American coast to American coast be American — built, owned, flagged and crewed. That means goods going from the mainland to Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and Guam — or even from Texas to New England — have to travel on U.S. ships, even if they're not the most economical transport or readily available.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="d79d182a71"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2017-09-24/Bloomberg/06225036.jpg&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2017-09-24/Bloomberg/06225036.jpg&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2017-09-24/Bloomberg/06225036.jpg" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2017-09-24/Bloomberg/06225036.jpg&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">Authorities hand out water in Puerto Rico on Sunday. (Thais Llorca/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE)</span> </div> <p><strong>Why that matters to hurricane relief:</strong> If there's a foreign ship nearby that has come from the United States and happens to have U.S. supplies that can help Puerto Rico, it can't dock in Puerto Rico. Only U.S. ships can.</p> <p>David Lewis, vice president of Manchester Trade Ltd., said that foreign ships can't transport U.S. cargo from one U.S. point to another under the Jones Act. “The Coast Guard won't let them,” he said.</p> <p>Top GOP politicians wanted the president to life it. Here's House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday: "<span style="font-weight: 400;">I'm very glad the president waived the Jones Act so we can get every ship we can to Puerto Rico." </span></p> <p><strong>Why the law exists:</strong> Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act in 1920, after World War I, when it was worried that the U.S. shipping industry was weak — too weak to, say,  fight with German submarines that had sunk hundreds of U.S. ships.</p> <p><strong>Why the law still exists: </strong>Because there are powerful arguments on both sides. Puerto Rican officials have long despised the law, saying it makes their food and goods much more expensive than on the mainland. Politicians in Hawaii <a href="http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/keeping-up-with-the-jones-act/">have argued</a> that ranchers have even resorted to flying cows to the mainland rather than shipping them. Other opponents of the law <a href="https://twitter.com/walterolson/status/913036051136081921">say</a> it forces New Englanders to pay more for propane, holds up salt supplies to clear snowstorms in New Jersey and raises electricity rates in Florida.</p> <p>But its supporters say there is no evidence that the Jones Act leads to shortages of actual ships arriving in a disaster, and until recently it wasn't lifted routinely in natural disasters. Lewis said most fuel comes to Puerto Rico from foreign countries, on foreign ships, so lifting the Jones Act wouldn't help Puerto Rico on that front anyway.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="7c9568f8b7"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/26/Editorial-Opinion/Images/2017-09-26T212651Z_1170257904_RC1804EC5BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-2401.jpg&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/26/Editorial-Opinion/Images/2017-09-26T212651Z_1170257904_RC1804EC5BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-2401.jpg&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/26/Editorial-Opinion/Images/2017-09-26T212651Z_1170257904_RC1804EC5BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-2401.jpg" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/26/Editorial-Opinion/Images/2017-09-26T212651Z_1170257904_RC1804EC5BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-2401.jpg&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">Ysamar Figueroa, carrying son Saniel, looks at the damage in the neighborhood after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria, in Canovanas, Puerto Rico. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)</span> </div> <p>The Department of Homeland Security agrees. It originally <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/the-latest-pelosi-calls-for-military-help-in-puerto-rico/2017/09/25/86d85f02-a209-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_story.html?utm_term=.25c89b840023">said</a> getting more fuel to the island wouldn't address its main problem, which is ports damaged by the storm. Plus, barges, which make up a large part of U.S.-flagged ships, would deliver most humanitarian relief, the agency said.</p> <p>Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), who represents Northern California, said to the best of his understanding, ships arriving are not the problem, but rather the ability to transport what they're bringing.</p> <p>“The problem is not that the containers [of aid and fuel] are not arriving in Puerto Rico,” he told The Fix. “It's that they're not getting off the dock.”</p> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Maddening. <br/>3,000 shipping containers packed with food water &amp; medicene have been sitting at the port in Puerto Rico since Saturday <a href="https://t.co/LJ0ETpmnOf">pic.twitter.com/LJ0ETpmnOf</a></p> <p>— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/913088574983168000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>He said 6,000 shipping containers are en route or already at Puerto Rico with supplies that are estimated to deliver some 5 million tons of aid. He and Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) are holding an emergency hearing Thursday morning on how deliveries are arriving in Puerto Rico via U.S. ships.</p> <p><strong>The fight over the law in Congress:</strong> Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been leading the charge to get rid of it. It's antiquated, it hinders free trade and it makes goods more expensive, he argues.</p> <p>But the U.S. shipping industry likes the law because it guarantees them jobs. And that may be enough of a reason. “The power of this maritime lobby is as powerful as anybody or any organization I have run up against in my political career,” McCain <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-jonesact-mccain/senator-mccain-vows-jones-act-will-be-repealed-one-day-idUSKCN0JJ24Q20141205">said</a> in 2014.</p> <p>Trump himself said as much when chatting with reporters briefly Wednesday: “We're thinking” about lifting it, he said, but “a lot of people who are in the shipping industry don't want it” lifted.</p> <p><strong>Why it probably will exist for the foreseeable future: </strong>The Jones Act has long had powerful friends. For a while, shipyards in Mississippi were the main beneficiaries of the Jones Act, and a senator from Mississippi — Trent Lott (R) — happened to be the Senate majority leader.</p> <p>Conversely, many who lose out under the Jones Act don't have a say. Puerto Rico, for example, has no voting power in Congress. Same with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/11/these-are-the-answers-to-all-the-questions-you-suddenly-have-about-guam/?utm_term=.183f13608b3e">Guam</a>.</p> <p>“It's a classic residual program that has concentrated benefits to a few and widely diffused costs to the many,” said Scott Miller, an international trade expert with the Center for Strategic &amp; International Studies.</p> <p><strong>Why the Trump administration is taking heat: </strong>Fairly or not, wavering on lifting the Jones Act bolsters criticism that Trump cares a lot less about Puerto Rico than he does about U.S. citizens on the mainland.</p> <p>Over the weekend, Trump tweeted more than a dozen times about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and not once about the devastation in Puerto Rico. Trump even appeared to be unclear on how far away Puerto Rico is from the mainland United States, saying there's “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/26/the-very-big-ocean-between-here-and-puerto-rico-is-not-a-perfect-excuse-for-a-lack-of-aid/?utm_term=.f58db56dab6d">a very big ocean</a>” rescuers have to cross to get there.</p> <p>And it gives his opponents another data point to use when they accuse Trump of being more empathetic to the plights of people who look like him.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="After the Category 4 hurricane slammed into Puerto Rico, many of the more than 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory were still without adequate food, water and fuel. 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</div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Marines and area residents unload food from an MV-22 Osprey aircraft in Jayuya." data-credit="Ryre Arciaga/U.S. Navy/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SW462.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4192" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="45fe261e-a49e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Hospital employees sort donated canned food to deliver to a nearby shelter in Catano." data-credit="Ramon Espinosa/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_44454-b3bf8.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="7952" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="a49e730e-a49e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People charge their mobile devices outside a Walmart store in San Juan." data-credit="John Taggart/Bloomberg News" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/318485056_0-7.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5760" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="faab434a-a49d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People line up to get into a San Juan Walmart." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/855215942.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="78ee80d2-a49e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People line up to get money from an ATM in San Juan." data-credit="Alvin Baez/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-29T000933Z_1965075670_RC1D11C56D20_RTRMADP_3_USA-PUERTORICO-CASH.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="df82f33a-a531-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Hurricane survivors receive food and water given out by volunteers and municipal police in Toa Baja." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/National-Enterprise/Images/855300196.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="b5e92486-a531-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="People wait for charter flights out of San Juan at Isla Grande airport." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/For The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/AirportPuertoRico_1-001.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="4989" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="c3e13530-a516-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Relief supplies are brought in by private jets to Isla Grande airport in San Juan." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/for The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/AirportPuertoRico_4-001.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="4125965c-a518-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, right, hands in solar lamps to La Perla neighborhood residents in San Juan." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/for The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/SanJuanMayor3.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="4959" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="55afd0e2-a531-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="The mayor of San Juan handed out LED lights to residents of the La Perla neighborhood, one of the poorest and most violent, as Puerto Rico struggles with safety issues because of no electricity." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/for The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/LaPerlaNight_PuertoRico16-002.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="4820ab22-a518-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Residents of the La Perla neighborhood in San Juan, which has no electricity, use LED lights given out by the mayor." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/For The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/LaPerlaNight_PuertoRico14-002.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="4cee7bde-a518-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="A family fills up water bottles at a cistern truck in La Perla." data-credit="Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/For The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/29/Others/Images/2017-09-29/LaPerlaNight_PuertoRico9-002.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 28, 2017" data-uuid="4c0162c2-a518-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Yolanda Negron and her daughter Yolymar Bernard salvage what they can from their destroyed home in Corozal, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/854886976.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.359" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="3df00508-a469-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A toppled electronic billboard lies atop a house in San Juan." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SV226.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="062d9d6a-a469-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People wait at a San Juan gas station to fill up their fuel containers." data-credit="Alvin Baez/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-28T141444Z_1429067875_RC1BDC339600_RTRMADP_3_USA-PUERTORICO.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="434d128a-a468-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A sign that reads “Borinken vive” is seen a week after the passage of the hurricane in Cayey." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SV22L.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="6e947d7a-a468-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Mario Soler Sr., right, and his son Mario Soler Jr. survey their destroyed plantain field in Salinas." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SV22B.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="26b5f0be-a469-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People cross a bridge that was destroyed in Corozal." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/854878930.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="6aaf8ab4-a469-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Ruby Rodriguez, 8, crosses through the San Lorenzo River with her family after the bridge that crosses the river was swept away in Morovis." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_05458-f7b65.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="9e5d2a5c-a468-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="With no running water in their homes, people bathe in spring water in Corozal." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/854890854.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="2e432360-a469-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A resident bails water from a flooded home in Catano." data-credit="Carlos Giusti/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_95967-c4132.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2417" data-ratio="1.501" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="f30ac55a-a468-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People wait in lines to take money from an ATM in Humacao, Puerto Rico. More than 3.4 million citizens in the U.S. territory were still without adequate food, water, electricity and fuel." data-credit="Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SU6OJ-2747.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4928" data-ratio="1.502" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="fe3cfb8e-a3a8-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A worker collects food requested by buyers in a supermarket in Humacao." data-credit="Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SU6OG.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="7360" data-ratio="1.498" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="08ee6eb4-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A telephone technician tries to repair the lines in Punta Santiago." data-credit="Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SV10W.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4928" data-ratio="1.502" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="0695859e-a3d6-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man holding gas containers walks by a long line of cars as people try to buy fuel in Morovis." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_51414-00913.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4004" data-ratio="1.414" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="a6d9c778-a3d5-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Women help each other across the San Lorenzo River after the bridge traversing it was washed away in Morovis." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_74966-c918a.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="d89ec678-a3d5-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Vehicles travel along a dark street in an area of San Juan without electricity." data-credit="Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg News" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/28/National-Enterprise/Images/318482048_0-7.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5130" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 27, 2017" data-uuid="1770183e-a49e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Nelida Trinidad walks around her destroyed home in Montebello." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_01565-6c1f3.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="f7443e0e-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Maribel Valentin Espino sits in her hurricane-destroyed home in Montebello." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Hurricane_Maria_San_Juan_53923-21cc9.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="f8e4fa5c-a39d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Ysamar Figueroa, carrying her son Saniel, looks at the damage in her neighborhood in Canovanas." data-credit="Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-26T212651Z_1170257904_RC1804EC5BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="c187d686-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Jose Garcia Vicente walks through the rubble of his destroyed home in Aibonito." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_54758-70d3e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 25, 2017" data-uuid="e4727bee-a39d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People stand in line to withdraw cash from an ATM after the hurricane heavily damaged the government-run electrical system in the Miramar neighborhood of San Juan." data-credit="Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg News" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/318336280_0-5.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4815" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="f97ea908-a39e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People fill containers with water from a tank truck in Canovanas." data-credit="Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-27T110226Z_1391962877_RC180AD5FB80_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-PUERTORICO-WATER.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="ed43b01c-a39d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Melvin Rodriguez showers with water from a well on a street in Canovanas." data-credit="Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-27T110208Z_1500427460_RC1DD849C8C0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA-PUERTORICO-WATER.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="f1d34e44-a39d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman cleans up her damaged house in Canovanas." data-credit="Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-26T212924Z_528536796_RC16AEA89AF0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-MARIA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="ba86752c-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Myriam Rivera and her family rebuild their house in the neighborhood of Acerolas in Toa Alta." data-credit="Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_ST5VT.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="7360" data-ratio="1.498" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="813f3494-a39e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Wilson Hernandez and his family rebuild their house destroyed in Toa Alta." data-credit="Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_ST5VA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4928" data-ratio="1.502" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="8a5979c2-a39e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Edgar Morales sits and waits in line to get gas with others in San Juan." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/854338974.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="7e69d106-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Semiramis Colon, center, waits in line to get into a San Juan grocery store." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/854338986.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.431" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="85203a8a-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Downed trees rest on tombs at a cemetery in Lares." data-credit="Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_08718-a78f2.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4444" data-ratio="1.54" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="153a324e-a39e-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Neighbors sit on a couch outside their destroyed homes as sun sets in Yabucoa." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_62498-1b38e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="adbc89a0-a39d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Nestor Serrano walks on the upstairs floor of his home, where the walls were blown off, in Yabucoa." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Maria_60580-2d4f9.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 26, 2017" data-uuid="18a44092-a3a2-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Floodwaters surround destroyed homes and vehicles in Hamacao." data-credit="Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg News" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/27/National-Enterprise/Images/318307089_0-7.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4589" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 25, 2017" data-uuid="dcad6462-a3a9-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An aerial view of destroyed homes in the La Perla neighborhood in San Juan." data-credit="Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg News" 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