President Joe Biden received a first-hand look at the devastation from Hurricane Ida in southeast Louisiana on Friday and met with state and local officials leading the response efforts. Biden pledged that the federal government will stand with Louisiana as it rebuilds.
“We’re in this together and so we are not going to leave any community behind, rural, city, coastal, inland and promise we are going to have your backs until this thing gets done,” said Biden.
It will take billions of dollars to rebuild. Biden says the hurricane recovery is an example of why Congress needs to pass an extensive infrastructure bill so that the state can build back better.
“It seems to me that we can save a whole lot of money, and a whole lot of pain, pain for our constituents if we build back, we build back in a better way,” said Biden.
Governor John Bel Edwards says the billions of dollars spent on shoring up levees after Hurricane Katrina is an example of building back better. Edwards says this could have been a much more expensive storm.
“We had a few of the minor levees that overtopped and if your home got water because of that, it’s not minor, it’s serious, but we are talking about very low numbers compared to what would have happened,” said Biden.
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