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档案-在这张2017年6月16日的档案照片中，新奥尔良市长米奇·兰德里欧在华盛顿州讲话..
华盛顿-总统乔·拜登他选择了米奇·兰德里欧作为他的1万亿美元基础设施计划的监督者，米奇·兰德里欧作为新奥尔良市长，在卡特里娜飓风的破坏后推动该市恢复。
白宫周日表示，兰德鲁将负责协调联邦机构在道路、港口、桥梁和机场方面的工作。预计拜登将于周一签署基础设施法案，使其成为法律。
61岁的兰德鲁曾是路易斯安那副州长，并于2010年接任新奥尔良市长，五年前，卡特里娜飓风淹没了这座城市，该地区的复苏陷入停滞——以及英国石油公司在墨西哥湾的大规模漏油污染了该州的海岸线。白宫在一份声明中说，他为道路、学校、公园和基础设施获得了数十亿美元的联邦资金，并将新奥尔良变成了“美国伟大的复兴故事之一”。
兰德里欧在声明中说:“我感谢总统，并很荣幸被赋予协调几代人以来最大的基础设施投资的任务。“我们的工作将需要政府各部门之间以及与州和地方领导人、企业和劳工建立强有力的伙伴关系，以创造高薪工作，为中产阶级重建美国。”
当兰德鲁还是市长时，他从新奥尔良的风景中移除了四座吉姆·克劳时代的纪念碑，包括三座邦联偶像的雕像，从而获得了全国的认可。
兰德里欧在2018年发起了E Pluribus Unum基金，旨在通过培养能够建立共同点的领导者来打破种族和阶级的壁垒。
无论从哪个角度来看，这个基础设施一揽子计划都是一项历史性的投资，拜登将其广度比作上个世纪修建的州际公路系统或上个世纪修建的横贯大陆的铁路。他称之为“重建美国的蓝领蓝图”
Former New Orleans mayor Landrieu to manage Biden's $1T plan
WASHINGTON -- PresidentJoe Bidenhas chosen as supervisor of his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Mitch Landrieu, who as New Orleans mayor pushed the city into recovery after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina.
Landrieu will be tasked with coordinating across federal agencies to work on roads, ports, bridges and airports, the White House said Sunday. Biden is expected to sign the infrastructure bill into law on Monday.
Landrieu, 61, was formerly theLouisianalieutenant governor and took over as mayor of New Orleans in 2010, five years after Katrina swamped the city and as the area's recovery stalled — and as a massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico polluted the state's coastline. He secured billions in federal funding for roads, schools parks and infrastructure, and turned New Orleans "into one of America’s great comeback stories,” the White House said in a statement.
“I am thankful to the president and honored to be tasked with coordinating the largest infrastructure investment in generations,” Landrieu said in the statement. “Our work will require strong partnerships across the government and with state and local leaders, business and labor to create good-paying jobs and rebuild America for the middle class."
When Landrieu was mayor, he gained national recognition when he removed four Jim Crow-era monuments from the New Orleans landscape, including statues of three Confederate icons.
Landrieu launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund in 2018, which aims to break barriers of race and class by cultivating leaders who can build common ground.
The infrastructure package is a historic investment by any measure, one that Biden compares in its breadth to the building of the interstate highway system in the last century or the transcontinental railroad the century before. He called it a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuilding America.”
