(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump plans to blame congressional Democrats for a lagging federal response to the hurricane-ravaged Florida panhandle during a visit Wednesday to the region, according to White House officials.

Trump will first travel to Tyndall Air Force Base, situated on a barrier island near Panama City, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Michael last year and is still recovering. He’ll tour storm-hit areas around the base and then hold a campaign rally in Panama City Beach, across the bay from the base, where he’ll criticize his opponents for the delay in rebuilding.

The Air Force secretary, Heather Wilson, said March 27 that recovery efforts at Tyndall would cease by May 1 if Congress didn’t pass a supplemental spending bill, according to the Pensacola News Journal.

The Trump administration has come under fire from Puerto Rico officials and their congressional allies for its response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated the territory in September 2017. The president has repeatedly, and erroneously, claimed that the government has provided $91 billion for Puerto Rico’s recovery, and has alleged without substantiation that some of the money has been lost to corruption.

The island’s government says that about $11.4 billion has been earmarked for Maria recovery by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and that it’s received about $5.7 billion so far.

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