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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.

Louisiana Democratic Congressman Troy Carter is sounding an optimistic note that a compromise is within reach on infrastructure and social spending bills Capitol Hill has been wrangling with. He talks about one of the projects in the 1.2-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that’s important to our state. About 6-billion-dollars is earmarked in the infrastructure bill for projects that include a passenger rail line running from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and beyond.  He says, “brick and mortar are obviously important to advance us.”

On the heels of an in-depth investigation and damning report by several news agencies, the ACLU of Louisiana has called for a federal investigation into allegations of extreme abuse and unnecessary use of force against Black suspects by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

On Sept. 24, non-profit, investigative-journalism organization ProPublica, through its Local Reporting Network and in conjunction with WRKF and WWNO, released a stinging article detailing the apparent racial bias within the JPSO and the overly aggressive nature of the sheriff’s department’s officers.

NEW ORLEANS — The temporary spending bill that lawmakers in Washington recently passed included $28.6 billion in emergency disaster relief and Louisanna will get a portion of that for its recovery. 

U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, Troy Carter, said that money is already in the bank and the resources are on their way to Louisiana.