Today, President Joe Biden laid out very clearly the argument behind the economic policies his administration has put into place. “When I took office, the pandemic was raging and the economy was reeling,” he wrote. Today the White House announced that this federal investment has attracted more than $1 trillion in private-sector investments. “Louisiana just became a much more attractive place to do business,” Louisiana economic development secretary Susan Bourgeois told Brook. It is becoming clear what Trump’s economic policy will look like at the national level.