The emptying out of the island that followed Maria then shared the same goals as PROMESA: avoid expenditures and create opportunities for capitalist extraction. President Trump made this complicity clear when, two weeks after Hurricane Maria, he stated the federal government had “gone all out” and that continuing to support Puerto Rico is “not only dangerous, it’s expensive” (Zoll 2017). Over the course of a year, the state spent six billion dollars in hurricane relief, four billion less than it spent in New Orleans (Swan 2018). Unlike Texas after Hurricane Harvey, the White House also demanded that Puerto Rico accept an “experimental funding system” through which the island would have to shoulder “any cost overruns” (Vinik 2018). Underscoring the intricate relationship between capital and state in the process of neoliberal colonial-capitalist extraction, the state propelled disaster capitalism, awarding 90% of federal contracts in critical areas such as energy to US companies that often were not qualified but charged exorbitant rates for inferior work (Center for a New Economy 2018).