Trump complains to senators that Puerto Rico gets too much hurricane relief money

President Trump, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, talks to reporters as he arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. A White House spokesman said Tuesday that the Trump administration is committed to “the complete recovery” of Puerto Rico. Sen. Mike Braun described Trump’s mood as “exuberant.” Some White House aides tried to discourage the visit, saying there was no agenda, according to two people familiar with the matter. But Trump — who scanned the room and joked to GOP senators that he likes about “90%” of those in attendance — took veiled shots at two former senators and critics: “There were two of you I didn’t like last year.” One of them, Trump said, is now on television — a reference to former Sen. Jeff Flake, who recently signed a contract with CBS News — and the other is “getting their real estate license,” apparently referring to former Sen. Bob Corker, who amassed significant personal wealth through acquisition of commercial real estate properties before his time in elected office. A person close to Corker responded: “I don’t think it will surprise you to learn that Sen. Corker actually is not planning to get a real estate license.” A White House spokesman said Trump ran through a litany of topics during his visit to the GOP lunch, including his “complete and total vindication” in the special counsel’s investigation, healthcare and efforts to rebuild the nation’s military.