LA FREEDOM CAUCUS ISSUES STATEMENT AT CLOSE OF THIRD EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

BATON ROUGE—The Louisiana Freedom Caucus released the following statement upon the adjournment of the Third Extraordinary Session of the State Legislature.

“It is the primary purpose of the Louisiana Freedom Caucus to bring fiscal responsibility to the state of Louisiana. That’s a very tall but important order,” said Beryl Amedée, Chairwoman of the House Freedom Caucus. “We will be dedicating all of our efforts between now and the fiscal session next April of 2025 to identify and bring bills forward to force efficiency and cut waste and fraud in our bloated budget.”

“Under Governor John Bel Edwards, our budget doubled in size to over $50 billion dollars,” Amedée continued. “For a state with a dwindling population of 4.5 million people, this is an obnoxious number. Nearly half of our budget is federal funding. We must be prepared for the reality of what that dependency means in a time when President Donald Trump seeks to greatly reduce federal spending.”