This Week in Louisiana Politics: tax session, homeless sweep, and Trump cabinet

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — On This Week in Louisiana Politics, get the latest on where the governor's major tax overhaul plan stands as the special session reaches the halfway point. Some of the key bills are hitting a snag.

Plus, the governor is once again weighing in on how New Orleans should be dealing with their homeless population. But local residents and city leaders do not agree with the way he is going about it.

As Donald Trump lays out his future cabinet nominations, Congressman Garret Graves makes the shortlist for a position. Hear from the senators who will be the ones to confirm him if he is selected.

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For their first "Weekend Update" segment after the recent string of controversial cabinet announcements from Donald Trump, co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che did not hold back. "This week, Donald Trump continued to announce everyone he's going to fire in six months," Jost said, adding, "On Wednesday, Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general. And Gaetz said the same thing he does when he sees a teenage girl: I'll do it." The joke comes after Gaetz's sudden resignation from Congress, whi

A Russian air strike on Ukraine on Sunday shook a fragile consensus among the Group of 20 major economies drafting their joint statement at an annual leaders summit in Rio de Janeiro, three diplomats familiar with the talks told Reuters. European diplomats are now pushing to revisit previously agreed language on the topic of global conflicts after Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months. The United States responded by lifting prior limits on Ukraine's use of U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the decision said on Sunday, in a significant reversal of Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, the sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns. The move comes two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20 and follows months of pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to allow Ukraine's military to use U.S. weapons to hit Russian military targets far from its border.

China's President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China and not to be challenged, the official state media Xinhua said on Sunday. Xi warned the United States not to get involved in bilateral disputes over islands and reefs in the South China Sea or "aid or abet the impulsion to make provocations" in that region, it said.

Department of Government Efficiency co-chief Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to eliminate federal government agencies and fire civil servants as part of the Trump administration's radical cost-cutting operation. Ramaswamy, who will lead the newly-created department alongside the billionaire Elon Musk, told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures that he would slash the size of the government in the U.S. "We expect mass reductions," he said. "We expect certain agencies to be deleted outrigh

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Vice President Kamala Harris campaign, which spent $100 million per week during her condensed run for the presidency, is still flooding supporter's inboxes with requests for cash. That's led to heightened scrutiny about how the campaign spent its record war chest and still ended up no match for President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA roadshow. Among the eye-popping expenses was a $1 million paid to Oprah Winfrey's production firm, Harpo Productions, for a town hall event she television star hosted w