FEMA Administrator Brock Long Defends Trump On Puerto Rico Death Toll Study

WASHINGTON (NBC NEWS) — FEMA Administrator Brock Long Sunday questioned the relevance of independent studies tying thousands of deaths to the aftermath of last September’s hurricane in Puerto Rico, ec... read more

FEMA administrator defends President Trump's comments about Puerto Rico death toll, says 'spousal abuse goes through the roof' in aftermath of storms

FEMA Administrator Brock Long defended President Donald Trump’s controversial claims which doubt new estimates on the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico and ... and death toll numbers from rece... read more

Brock Long Won’t Correct Trump Conspiracy On Hurricane-Related Deaths In Puerto Rico

FEMA Administrator Brock Long on Sunday refused to correct President Donald Trump’s false conspiracy theory that Democrats fabricated thousands of Hurricane Maria-related deaths in Puerto Rico ... are ... read more

FEMA administrator defends President Trump's comments about Puerto Rico death toll

(WASHINGTON) -- FEMA Administrator Brock Long defended President Trump’s controversial claims which doubt new estimates on the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico and ... death toll numbers from ... read more

FEMA Administrator Uses Spousal Abuse to Dispute Puerto Rico Death Toll

President Trump may not be too far off in his claim that the death toll numbers in Puerto Rico were inflated ... so says a FEMA administrator ... Maria. Brock disputes those figures though, saying tha... read more

NBC's Chuck Todd grills FEMA administrator Brock Long about Trump's denial of Hurricane Maria's death toll

President Trump on Twitter ... people died in Puerto Rico in connection to Hurricane Maria and its aftermath last year, and NBC's Chuck Todd is on the case. He grilled Federal Emergency Management Age... read more

FEMA head says numbers relating to Puerto Rico hurricane death toll have been ‘all over the place’

Sept. 16--FEMA administrator Brock Long defended President Trump's recent statements about Puerto Rico on Sunday, claiming the numbers relating to the death toll from Hurricane Maria have been 'all ov... read more

4 Takeaways On Puerto Rico’s Death Toll, In The Wake Of Trump’s Tweet Storm

FEMA Administrator Brock Long addressed ... oversight board put in place by Congress to address the island’s debt crisis, which stands at more than $70 billion.

4 Takeaways On Puerto Rico’s Death ... read more

FEMA boss defends Donald Trump’s denial of Hurricane Maria death toll figures

“There’s all kinds of studies on this that we can take a look at,” Long continued ... WATCH: Trump denies 3,000 died in Puerto Rico from hurricane The comments came days after Trump made unsupported c... read more

1 in 4 Americans buy Trump’s Puerto Rico death toll conspiracy theory

Just last week during a briefing about Hurricane Florence with FEMA administrator Brock Long ... his tweets. The New York Times initially ran a headline that read, “Trump Rejects Death Toll in Puerto ... read more

FEMA chief on Puerto Rico death toll: 'It’s hard to tell what’s accurate and what’s not'

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) head Brock Long said Sunday that it is "hard to tell what's accurate" regarding figures for Puerto Rico ... "all over the place" when it comes to the island' ... read more

4 takeaways on Puerto Rico’s death toll after Trump’s tweet storm

The GWU researchers calculated their estimated death toll ... the report said. FEMA Administrator Brock Long addressed some of those issues Tuesday in an interview on CNN. “We threw as much as we coul... read more