Kennedy offers funding amendment to infrastructure bill

Published August 4, 2021 8:00pm ET



Louisiana U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is attempting to secure $1.1 billion in federal disaster relief from a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill he voted against last week.

Kennedy has made repeated requests for funding to help Louisiana residents and businesses recover from last year’s hurricane season. All of his attempts have been ignored, he said, upon offering an amendment to the recently brokered Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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