NEW ORLEANS — Critical decisions will be made over the next two days, as the City of New Orleans grapples with a $200 million budget cut in 2026. Here are three things to know right now:

Financial struggles

It is no surprise that the city is struggling financially. For weeks, city leaders have been discussing the roughly $160 million spending deficit predicted by the end of the year. But each day, budget hearings are revealing more dire cuts.

Tuesday, the Director of the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center told council members that there is practically nothing left to trim from her budget, and that any new cuts could endanger people’s safety.

“I could be sitting here having a different conversation with the Council… like how did the staff get injured. How did the youth get injured. Wh

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