What Louisiana gets from the Budget deal

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All tolled, we get 1.3 billion dollars over the next 8 months

Here’s where some goes

Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City got $7 million for defense research to improve B-52 capabilities and another $7 million to expand a medical facility.
• Team Gleason Foundation in New Orleans will get $6 million to purchase wheelchairs, breathing machines, talking computers and other expensive technology for persons with ALS, which restricts a person’s movements.
• The New Orleans-based nonprofit group Feed the Second Line’s “Get Lit, Stay Lit” will receive $3.7 million to install solar and battery backup systems to more than 300 restaurants.

Southern University will get $2.1 million to purchase equipment for its legal education curricula and another $365,000 for its technology classes.
• LSU gets $3 million for its facilities and another $4 million to research hydrogen as a fuel.
• The town of Livingston gets $720,000 to improve the drinking water system and another $800,000 to renovate the Livingston Parish Courthouse.
• Lafayette was appropriated $5 million to replace water lines and $7 million for a taxiway realignment at Lafayette Regional Airport.
• Jefferson Davis Parish will get $2.8 million for drinking water improvements.
The bill passed Saturday allows the Pentagon to start building ships and next-generation fighter jets along with weapons systems, such as the ship-to-shore hovercraft to be built by New Orleans Textron Systems, mostly at its facilities in Slidell. Service members will receive a long-promised 5.2% pay raise.

The legislation also allots $4 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, on which many low income Louisiana residents rely to help lower utility costs.