Former New Orleans Mayor To Manage President Biden's $1T Plan
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Mitch Landrieu was mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018 and fast-tracked more than 100 projects to rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina.
President Joe Biden has chosen as supervisor of his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Mitch Landrieu, who as New Orleans mayor pushed the city into recovery after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina.
Landrieu will be tasked with coordinating across federal agencies to work on roads, ports, bridges and airports, the White House said Sunday. President Biden is expected to sign the infrastructure bill into law on Monday.
Landrieu, 61, was formerly the Louisiana lieutenant governor and took over as mayor of New Orleans in 2010, five years after Katrina swamped the city and as the area's recovery stalled — and as a massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico polluted the state's coastline. He secured billions in federal funding for roads, schools parks and infrastructure, and turned New Orleans "into one of America’s great comeback stories," the White House said in a statement.
