San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz to join Kirsten Gillibrand at State of the Union

Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced on Monday that San Juan’s mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz will be her guest for President Trump’s State of the Union address on January 30.

“Throughout the [hurricane] crisis in Puerto Rico, Mayor Cruz has shown extraordinary leadership and fearless advocacy for her city,” Gillibrand wrote on Twitter. “I hope Mayor Cruz’s presence at #SOTU will remind the president and my colleagues in Congress of our urgent responsibility to help Puerto Rico fully recover and rebuild. Our fellow citizens must not be forgotten or left behind.”

Cruz and Trump have been at odds since not long after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September.

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While the Trump administration touted its relief efforts as being successful, Cruz came forward to note the government’s severe insufficiencies in providing necessities like drinkable water and food, reports the Washington Post.

“I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying…We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency,” she also said at a press conference.

Trump responded to her pleas with tweets asserting Cruz had “been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” and saying that Puerto Rican officials “want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.”

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