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Louisiana seeks funding for National Guard virus response

| August 7, 2020 1:27 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards is questioning why Louisiana must pay a portion of the costs to use the state's National Guard in coronavirus response work if the federal government is picking up the full tab in some other states.

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