AG Jeff Landry just delayed a $39 million line of credit for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board because the city won't enforce the new abortion ban.
Rainwater spoke with Jezebel after the vote and said it’s “critical” for New Orleans to get the funding for this ambitious project, which has been in the works since 2017. “To be very clear, we’ve got to keep this project going forward so it can be completed by 2024,” he told me. “It’s amazingly critical to this city to protect lives.
As today’s meeting was taking place, a flood advisory was issued in New Orleans. August begins peak hurricane season in the city, which sits below sea level and has a notoriously untrustworthy levy and rainwater pump system.
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