Reuters
President Joe Biden on Thursday will visit the Gulf Coast state of Louisiana, which has backed Republicans in U.S. elections for the past two decades, to tout his plans to invest in water and storm projects in cities that have been battered by hurricanes. Biden, a Democrat, will visit both the decidedly liberal-leaning city of New Orleans, still scarred https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-housing-neworleans/new-orleans-renters-face-toxic-mix-of-crumbling-homes-weak-rights-eviction-worries-idUSKBN25K1T0 15 years after Hurricane Katrina, and deeply conservative Lake Charles, a city of 77,000 with a major refinery and petrochemical plants, which was slammed by Hurricanes Laura and Delta last year. The visits are the latest stop in the White House's "Getting America Back on Track Tour," to promote Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending plan and a $1.8 billion education and child-care proposal.