President Joe Biden will visit storm-ravaged Louisiana on Friday as the state attempts to recover from the category 4 Hurricane Ida that plowed into the Gulf Coast over the weekend.
The White House said Biden would survey storm damage and meet with state and local officials.Since the storm began gathering strength last week, Biden has made a point of deploying federal resources to the state and has received briefings on the storm each day this week.The consequences of the storm were still becoming clear days after it barreled through Louisiana and Mississippi, ravaging electrical grids and leaving people trapped in their homes.
Previous storms, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, have strained federal resources and reflected poorly on the White House.Ahead of the trip's announcement, White House aides said they were working to schedule a visit that did not impede recovery efforts on the ground."We know Hurricane Ida had the potential to cause massive, massive damage, and that's exactly what we saw," Biden said on Monday.
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