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Trump: Guard heading to N.O. Deployment planned in coming weeks
BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
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Birds take flight over a marsh-creation area of the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project in St. Bernard Parish on Tuesday.
Land rebuilt on the edge of Lake Borgne
National Guard members will arrive in New Orleans within weeks, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, following a request by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry for a monthslong, federally funded deployment aimed at tamping down on crime in the city. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump confirmed that the National Guard would be deployed to New Orleans “in a couple of weeks.” “We’re going to New Orleans pretty soon,” Trump said. “Gov. Landry — great guy, great governor — he’s asked for help in New Orleans.” Trump confirmed his plans after Landry said on Monday that he had received a commitment from Trump to send the National Guard to New Orleans “before Christmas.” “He said, ‘Don’t worry Jeff, we’ll have them there in two weeks,’” Landry said at an event commemorating victims of the vehicle-ramming attack on Bourbon Street on Jan. 1.
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BY MIKE SMITH
Staff writer
The state’s biggest marsh-building project ever completed was unveiled Tuesday in St. Bernard Parish, where enough sediment to fill the Superdome three times over was used to rebuild land rapidly washing away along the edge of Lake Borgne. The ribbon-cutting for what is officially known as the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project came with the state facing scrutiny over its coastal restoration program following the cancellation of two high-profile river di-
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, is facing a full agenda as Congress returns this week. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
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Visitors get a closer look at a marsh-creation area in Lake Borgne. version projects and looming funding shortfalls. But the completion of the major marsh-building effort in a spot frequented by legions of southeast Louisiana fishermen and duck hunters was a celebratory moment despite the blustery, cold weather for the event.
Located at a crossroads of the state’s coastal challenges, it also provided another lesson in Louisiana’s complex land loss crisis, the Hurricane Katrina memorial cross at Shell Beach rising
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STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER
Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the public lighting of a memorial Monday for the victims of the Bourbon Street terror attack.
Johnson faces rough month in Congress Speaker says he’s in ‘triage’ mode as he deals with big issues
BY MARK BALLARD
First, Congress has to figure out how to postpone an end-ofthe-month deadline that would WASHINGTON — Congress re- double health insurance costs turned to Capitol Hill this week for 24 million working Amerifacing a huge agenda with no cans. It also needs to approve easy solutions. annual spending on military
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ends Dec. 18. Even once that’s done, Conconstruction; consider sanc- gress must pass spending bills tions on Russia; and regulate before Jan. 30 or the govern“name, image, and likeness” ment could shut down — again. payments in college sports. At the center of it all is And there are just 12 sched- House Speaker Mike Johnson, uled workdays — 11 in the Senä See JOHNSON, page 8A ate — before this year’s session
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