Never ceases to amaze me how Leftist bureaucrats can continually manufacture new excuses to spend hundreds of billions of Federal Dollars on nonsense.
Well, if there was some way to make it come out in Ted Kennedy's state it might be worth it.
In the case of the Mississippi it's not nonsense. The river has been trying to change course for decades. The natural channel for the river is the Atchafalaya river basin flowing into the Gulf at Houma (I think?). All the efforts of the last 70 or so years by the Corps of Engineers have been to prevent the river from doing that.