President Donald Trump made his case last night for Congress to fund a US-Mexico border wall that he says is needed to address a growing humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border. Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise blames Democrats for failing to negotiate on this issue…
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Democrats, like Louisiana’s Cedric Richmond, point out that the President promised that Mexico would pay for the wall.

US Representative Garret Graves of Baton Rouge says he supports pending litigation that would force federal agencies to follow a law approved by Congress that would allow 2016 flood victims who received an SBA loan to also receive federal grant money through the Louisiana Restore program…
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Graves has urged state officials to go ahead pay the six-thousand families waiting on the money, but there is a risk that the federal government could one day ask for the money back.

A United Way Report shows 48 percent of Louisiana households do not make enough money to reliably meet their basic expenses…
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BP has announced plans to go forward with a one-point-three billion dollar expansion in production in the Gulf of Mexico after seismic imaging discovered an additional one-point-four billion barrels of oil under the sea.