MITCH LANDRIEU

President Joe Biden often frames his public words and policies as aimed at easing the struggles of everyday Americans, speaking often of parents who strive to pay the bills and provide stability for their children.

The plan will make at least 7,500 chargers from Tesla's Supercharger and Destination Charger network available to non-Tesla EVs by the end of 2024, the White House said. Under the administration's plan, Tesla will set up charging sites at hotels, restaurants and other public spaces in urban and rural locations, the White House said. Tesla plans to triple its nationwide network of Superchargers over the next few years, the White House said. The developments come after Landrieu and another top White House aide, John Podesta, met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Washington last month. Biden did not attend the meeting, which centered on the EV industry and the broader goal of electrification of the U.S. economy, the White House said.

The Biden administration announced rules for EV chargers and new commitments from Tesla, GM and others.

Electric car giant Tesla will, for the first time, make some of its charging stations available to all U.S. electric vehicles by the end of next year.

The Biden administration announced rules and commitments to expand EV charging stations, including cooperation from Tesla, Ford, GM, ChargePoint, and others.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after he was beaten by Memphis police officers just minutes from his home, the White House said Tuesday. Harris was invited to attend the funeral services Wednesday by Nichols’ mother and stepfather, RowVaughn Wells and Rodney Wells, according to Harris's press secretary, Kirsten Allen. Harris spoke by phone with the Wells family on Tuesday, expressing her condolences and offering her support. Nichols' family, the Rev. Nichols' funeral is set for Wednesday at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after he was beaten by Memphis police officers just minutes from his home, the White House said Tuesday. Harris was invited to attend the funeral services Wednesday by Nichols’ mother and stepfather, RowVaughn Wells and Rodney Wells, according to Harris's press secretary, Kirsten Allen. Harris spoke by phone with the Wells family on Tuesday, expressing her condolences and offering her support. Nichols' family, the Rev. Nichols' funeral is set for Wednesday at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis.

The money is part of $1.2 billion in mega grants being awarded under the 2021 infrastructure law. “There’s nothing beyond our capacity.”The two trips amount to a form of counterprogramming to the new House Republican majority. To some in the Biden administration, the Hudson Tunnel Project demonstrates what could be lost if spending cuts are put into place. The grant would also be used to help complete the concrete casing for an additional rail tunnel beneath the river, preserving a right of way for the eventual tunnel. Some Republican lawmakers in Arizona say it gave preference to mass transit and repair projects over expansion and new construction.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top aides to President Joe Biden have met in Washington to discuss electric vehicles.

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Chicago’s Southeast Side as part of a White House effort to promote infrastructure projects and other Democratic accomplishments.

But Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor and the administration's infrastructure coordinator, knows the diplomacy it requires. That sum is a lifeline for places like Warren County in North Carolina. Landrieu listened intently as Duncan spoke during a roundtable with Vilsack and North Carolina officials. Roy Cooper said that one million North Carolina residents lack high-speed internet, Landrieu registered that number with his eyes. He was a state legislator and lieutenant governor before serving as New Orleans mayor.

But Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor and the administration's infrastructure coordinator, knows the diplomacy it requires. That sum is a lifeline for places like Warren County in North Carolina. Landrieu listened intently as Duncan spoke during a roundtable with Vilsack and North Carolina officials. Roy Cooper said that one million North Carolina residents lack high-speed internet, Landrieu registered that number with his eyes. He was a state legislator and lieutenant governor before serving as New Orleans mayor.

Mitch Landrieu is the man entrusted with promoting President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure plan to the nation.

Many Republican candidates are seeking to capitalize on Americans’ precarious financial situations heading into next week’s midterm elections to vilify a key component of President Joe Biden’s climate agenda: electric vehicles.

There are 49 recipients across 24 states, who will recieve grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet.

RALEIGH, N.C. — (AP) — The Agriculture Department announced Thursday it is making available $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet, part of the broader $65 billion push for high-speed connectivity from last year's infrastructure law. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu unveiled the grants during a visit to North Carolina. “Rural communities are the backbone of our nation, but for too long they’ve been left behind and they have been underrecognized,” Landrieu said. That’s just beyond unacceptable that that’s not available to rural America.”Vilsack said he and Landrieu would “learn firsthand” from people in North Carolina about the opportunities internet access can create. They met with state and local officials including North Carolina Gov.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet, part of the broader $65 billion push for high-speed connectivity from last year's infrastructure law. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu are unveiling the grants in North Carolina on Thursday. “Rural communities are the backbone of our nation, but for too long they’ve been left behind and they have been underrecognized,” Landrieu said. That’s just beyond unacceptable that that’s not available to rural America.”Vilsack said he and Landrieu will “learn firsthand” from people in North Carolina about the opportunities internet access can create. They plan to meet with state and local officials including North Carolina Gov.

The Agriculture Department has announced $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet.

The new, mostly electric school buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and better protect children's health, they said. Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were electric as of last year, but the push to abandon traditional diesel buses has gained momentum in recent years. The clean bus program “is accelerating our nation’s transition to electric and low-emission school buses while ensuring a brighter, healthier future for our children,” Regan said. The EPA initially made $500 million available for clean buses in May but increased that to $965 million last month, responding to what officials called overwhelming demand for electric buses. Besides the District of Columbia, big cities that won grants for clean school buses include New York, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

The new, mostly electric school buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and better protect children's health, they said. Only about 1% of the nation's 480,000 school buses were electric as of last year, but the push to abandon traditional diesel buses has gained momentum in recent years. The clean bus program “is accelerating our nation’s transition to electric and low-emission school buses while ensuring a brighter, healthier future for our children,” Regan said. The EPA initially made $500 million available for clean buses in May but increased that to $965 million last month, responding to what officials called overwhelming demand for electric buses. Besides the District of Columbia, big cities that won grants for clean school buses include New York, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

“This is the first time we’ve tried this in 50 years on this level,” said Mitch Landrieu, the White House’s infrastructure coordinator and a New Orleans mayor. At a Los Angeles subway line construction site, Biden said Thursday that the infrastructure investments were crucial for improving people's quality of life and economic opportunities. It overlapped with Biden's being away from the White House as he travels to Western states. Funding from the infrastructure law provided an additional $14 million to keep neighborhoods intact, with the project scheduled for completion in 2026. Hancock said that the infrastructure law also created an “unprecedented” opportunity to partner with female and minority-owned contractors.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The White House will host a summit Thursday to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law — an effort to improve coordination with the mayors and governors who directly account for 90% of the spending. “This is the first time we’ve tried this in 50 years on this level,” said Mitch Landrieu, the White House’s infrastructure coordinator and the former mayor of New Orleans. It will overlap with Biden's being away from the White House as he travels to Western states. Funding from the infrastructure law provided an additional $14 million to keep neighborhoods intact, with the project scheduled for completion in 2026. Hancock said that the infrastructure law also created an “unprecedented” opportunity to partner with female and minority-owned contractors.

The White House is hosting a summit to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law.

The funding is part of President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

He was credited with bringing transformative change to his city as mayor in the 1970s and was the patriarch of a Democratic dynasty.

— (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu — whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race — died Monday, a family friend confirmed. Moon Landrieu discussed the blowback over race in a 1977 speech to the National League of Cities convention. Madeleine became dean of the law school at Loyola University New Orleans, and Maurice is a federal prosecutor. Born Maurice E. Landrieu on July 23, 1930, he was called Moon, a family nickname, throughout his life and eventually made that his legal first name. He served three years in the Army before opening a small, walk-up law office with law school classmate Pascal Calogero, later the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died.

Federal officials announced plans Thursday to spend $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve the speed of internet for rural residents, tribes and businesses in 11 West and Central U.S. states.

Inflation is taking a toll on infrastructure projects across the U.S. Rising prices for materials such as asphalt, steel and iron pipes are driving up the costs to build roads, bridges, rail lines and water mains.

President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure measure into law in November.

Biden Infrastructure FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at the New Hampshire Port Authority in Portsmouth, N.H., April 19, 2022. Six months after the passage of the $1 trillion infrastructure package, the Biden administration says 4,300 projects are underway and $110 billion has gone out. Landrieu said Biden and members of his administration have made more than 125 trips to highlight the bipartisan investments in infrastructure. There is an open question whether voters will reward infrastructure projects in which the benefits are years away as part of what Biden has portrayed as an "infrastructure decade." The infrastructure spending is also one area where political leaders will have to share credit with each other.

It's been six months since President Joe Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure package into law.

Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter.

President Joe Biden says the bipartisan infrastructure law will pump $1 billion into a Great Lakes restoration program.

States are getting the go-ahead to build a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations that would place new or upgraded stations every 50 miles along interstate highways.

Biden President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with the National Governors Association in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. Biden welcomed governors to the White House on Monday as part of the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, and he cajoled them on the importance of infrastructure. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican and chairman of the National Governors Association. Landrieu said he has already spoken with 43 governors and more than 250 mayors as part of the push. Not all the infrastructure money is able to go out as the federal government is operating on a continuing resolution that runs through Feb. 18, instead of an annual budget.

Biden Infrastructure Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Washington. The Biden administration is issuing a guidebook to help federal, state and local government officials know how to access the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday issued a guidebook to help federal, state and local government officials know how to access the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal. Administration officials assembled the book quickly as the infrastructure package became law on Nov. 15. Not all the infrastructure money is able to go out as the federal government is operating on a continuing resolution that runs through Feb. 18, instead of an annual budget.

President Joe Biden is urging U.S. governors to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolls out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

Joe Biden’s long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Andrew Harnik)President Joe Biden on Friday tried to put behind recent setbacks on voting rights and his economic agenda by outlining progress made in implementing his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. “When we invest in infrastructure, we’re really investing in opportunity,” Biden said. His economic and voting rights agenda has been stymied in the Senate, while the Supreme Court halted his administration's vaccine-or-testing mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees. Biden said he's determined to show that construction tied to the infrastructure package can better people's lives. The Transportation Department has announced the distribution of roughly $56 billion to improve highways, airports and shipping ports.

President Joe Biden is trying to put behind recent setbacks on voting rights and his economic agenda by outlining the progress made in implementing the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package.

An Amazon executive and a top official at Center for American Progress have been appointed to coordinate the implementation of the new infrastructure law.

MITCH LANDRIEU PROFILE FILE - Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu after President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (Susan Walsh)NEW ORLEANS — (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu left office nearly four years ago, winning national accolades for removing landmark Confederate monuments after jump-starting the recovery from Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic levee failures and flooding. He was tapped this week by President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, to coordinate more than $1 trillion in national infrastructure spending. Landrieu also led development of a new state-of-the-art international airport, something state and city leaders had been talking about for decades.

As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010.

Fighting sagging poll ratings, President Joe Biden has set out on a national tour to persuade everyday Americans of the benefits of his big, just-signed infrastructure plan.

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 signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law before a bipartisan celebratory crowd on the White House lawn.

President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1 trillion infrastructure plan.

– Leading progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy agenda even as more centrist Democrats argue such proposals prevented the party from retaking full control of Congress. The left-leaning think tank Progressive Change Institute partnered with more than 40 activist groups and on Friday released a detailed list of 400 progressive policy experts they want Biden to bring on. Additionally, the groups sent a similar letter to Senate Democrats instructing them to hold Biden accountable to those demands. The policy clashes will begin to take more defined shape as Biden makes more choices for his new administration. Klain served as czar to the Obama administration's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the U.S., and the pick was cheered by moderate and progressive Democrats alike.

– Leading progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy agenda even as more centrist Democrats argue such proposals prevented the party from retaking full control of Congress. The left-leaning think tank Progressive Change Institute partnered with more than 40 activist groups and on Friday released a detailed list of 400 progressive policy experts they want Biden to bring on. Additionally, the groups sent a similar letter to Senate Democrats instructing them to hold Biden accountable to those demands. The policy clashes will begin to take more defined shape as Biden makes more choices for his new administration. Klain served as czar to the Obama administration's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the U.S., and the pick was cheered by moderate and progressive Democrats alike.

John Dickerson talks with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic about his latest article on the crusade of New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu to stop the killing of black men in America