Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Baton Rouge on Wednesday for a “listening session” with business leaders and to make remarks, Pence’s spokesman confirms with USA Today Network of Louisiana.
Pence’s trip follows the release of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget.
“Topics will include health care and the president’s proposed budget that will be released (Tuesday)” Marc Lotter, the vice president’s press secretary, says in an email.
Other specifics, including logistics and locations, will be released today, Lotter says. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ spokesman Richard Carbo adds that there are tentative plans for the Democratic governor to meet Pence at the airport, “but we don’t have any other details about the visit yet.”
It will be Pence’s third trip to Louisiana in less than a year.
The vice president toured capital region flood damage when he and President Donald Trump visited as candidates last summer and again late last year to lead a rally in New Orleans for eventual Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy.
