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Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter says the president’s decision to put his $1 trillion infrastructure bill on hold and to relink the legislation to his $3.5 trillion social proposals is the correct strategy.
“The basic take away is that we’re closer than many think,” Carter said Friday about the two cornerstone bills of the Biden administration in the moments after leaving a Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill with President Joe Biden.
Let the record show that both Louisiana representatives who are part of the Republican congressional leadership voted against aid to help the state recover from a string of disasters.
And also against keeping the government open. Because what’s the point of having a functioning government anyway, if you’re not going to put it to work for the people you represent?
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter of New Orleans, Louisiana's only Democrat in Congress, believes a compromise to close the deal on infrastructure and social spending bills is within reach.
President Joe Biden met with House Democrats Friday afternoon in an attempt mend a fracture within his own party that threatens to derail both the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the more partisan $3.5 trillion social spending bill.