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Dana Milbank: An unstoppable Florence meets Trump’s immovable Washington

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Video: President Trump called his response to Hurricane Maria “an incredible, unsung success.” But in town of Yabucoa, the mayor says the President ‘denigrates the people of Puerto Rico.’ (Whitney Leaming, Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)

Fifty weeks ago, following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, which we now know killed some 3,000 Americans in Puerto Rico, Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee called for hearings into the flawed federal response to the 2017 storms in Puerto Rico.

The Republican majority hemmed and hawed, dithered and stalled for nearly a year, before finally this month scheduling a hearing on 2017's storms for Thursday — just in time for Hurricane Florence to hit the Carolina coast.