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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — As national investigators analyse the deadly New Year's Day attack successful New Orleans, President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump had starkly antithetic reactions.
At slightest 15 radical were killed and dozens much injured aft a conveyance drove into a assemblage connected Canal and Bourbon Streets aboriginal Wednesday greeting successful what the FBI is investigating arsenic an enactment of terrorism.
The White House said Biden has held aggregate briefings with national instrumentality enforcement and U.S. Department of Homeland Security leaders. The Department of Justice besides sent agents and different resources to New Orleans to assistance investigators.
Biden said determination is "no justification" for what helium described arsenic a "despicable act."
"I cognize portion this idiosyncratic committed a unspeakable battle connected the city, the tone of New Orleans volition ne'er beryllium defeated. It volition ever radiance forth. We've seen it clip and clip again passim its history, and I cognize we'll spot it again," Biden said during an code from Camp David.
Trump besides weighed successful connected the violence, penning connected Truth Social, "Our hearts are with each of the guiltless victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration volition afloat enactment the City of New Orleans arsenic they analyse and retrieve from this enactment of axenic evil!"
Lawmakers want answers from DHS, FBI
Meanwhile, immoderate lawmakers are weighing successful connected the information failures that led to the incident, demanding much answers from national authorities.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is asking the Senate Homeland Security Committee to telephone connected Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray to attest earlier they permission office.
In a missive sent Wednesday to the incoming president of the committee Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Hawley said the Mayorkas and Wray should springiness a "full relationship of this attack" and study immoderate section failures.
Hawley added that Biden medication officials “cannot shirk nationalist accountability” as Biden’s term ends.
Meanwhile, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., claims the New Orleans onslaught shows the request for the Senate to corroborate Trump's nationalist information squad arsenic soon arsenic possible, adding that lives could beryllium connected it.
