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Trump’s spending bill passes Senate Bill. House expected OneTheBigbillBeautiful passed the Senate on a of 51 to 50, with Vice Presito take up measure vote dent JD Vance casting the vote that broke the tie. Wednesday All Democrats voted no, along
with three Republicans: Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Thom Tillis, of North Carolina; and Susan Collins, Staff writer of Maine. Both Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Baton WASHINGTON — Louisiana’s U.S. senators voted Tuesday with their Rouge, and Sen. John N. Kennedy, Republican Party colleagues to of Madisonville, approved keepnarrowly pass President Donald ing the bill, which encompasses Trump’s flagship legislation, the Trump’s domestic agenda, on track
BY MARK BALLARD
“We keep taxes low, cut taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, extend the Child Tax Credit, fix our broken education system, support our military, secure our border, and build a business environment that creates better paying jobs — especially in Louisiana.” SEN. BILL CASSIDy, R-Baton Rouge
to be enacted July 4. Cassidy said after the vote, “We keep taxes low, cut taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, extend the Child Tax Credit, fix our
broken education system, support our military, secure our border, and build a business environment that creates better paying jobs — especially in Louisiana.”
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies
Among its dozens of facets, the bill increases spending on border security, including completing a wall along the Mexican border, on military armaments, and extends tax breaks and creates new ones for income from tips and overtime. Those expenses are partially paid for with spending reductions for health care, nutrition and green energy programs. The legislation now heads to the U.S. House for confirmation of or
ä See SENATE, page 7A
Courcelle picked for U.S. attorney post BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
of 200 television stations and watched by two million households. His thriving church complex on Bluebonnet Boulevard consisted of more than a dozen buildings, including dormitories, television production studios and warehouses to handle the bundles of mail that came into the ministry every day.
President Donald Trump has tapped a veteran Jefferson Parish attorney as the New Orleans region’s next federal prosecutor, culminating months of talks over who should lead the U.S. Justice D e p a r t m e n t ’s largest Louisiana outpost. Trump on Tuesday nominated David I. Courcelle, whose work representing a series of prominent white- Courcelle collar defendants has made him a fixture of Louisiana’s federal courts, as his pick for U.S. attorney over the 13-parish Eastern District of Louisiana, according to a document obtained by The Times-Picayune. Courcelle must still receive Senate confirmation to officially secure the job. The nomination signals he has
ä See SWAGGART, page 6A
ä See COURCELLE, page 8A
The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart preaches at his Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge in February 1987.
STAFF FILE PHOTO By STEPHAN SAVOIA
Massive global broadcast ministry based in La. plagued by scandal in mid-1980s Staff report The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation’s biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge headquarters, died Tuesday. Swaggart, who went into cardiac arrest on Father’s Day, was 90 years old. Once called “the most charismatic televangelist of the 20th century,” by 1986,
he was the country’s top-rated TV preacher. But two widely publicized incidents involving Swaggart and prostitutes threatened to derail the ministry. His televised confession to the first encounter — “I have sinned” — was seen across the country. At its peak, his Jimmy Swaggart Telecast was being broadcast by upward
Buyer wants to turn Plaza Tower into affordable senior housing the 1960s skyscraper into ry tower into about 325 residential $250M project would convert subsidized apartments for low- units and to come up with a plan seniors. for retail and other commercial need to be financed income The agreement is the culmina- uses for the ground floor and analmost entirely from tion of several months of talks be- nex space on the Howard Avenue tween the property trustee for the side of the complex. public money He said a preliminary report late Joe Jaeger, who had owned the
BY ANTHONY McAULEY Staff writer
The owner of Plaza Tower, a notorious eyesore at the edge of the South Market District in downtown New Orleans, has signed a purchase and sales agreement with a prospective buyer who plans to
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building for the past decade, and Lincoln Avenue Communities, a California-based affordable housing developer that led the redevelopment of the nearby Tivoli Place Apartments at Harmony Circle last year. David Garcia, a partner at Lincoln Avenue, said Tuesday that the aim would be to convert the 45-sto-
from an engineering firm shows that extensive remediation work will be needed to make the building safe. The project — estimated to cost between $250 million and $300 million — would have to be financed almost entirely by public money, which will take many
STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD
The Plaza Tower in downtown New Orleans has been problematic since it ä See TOWER, page 8A was built in the late 1960s.
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