President Biden vowed Tuesday to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it collapsed into the water when a cargo ship rammed into it, echoing what some Maryland officials said earlier but adding that he expects the federal government to foot the bill.
“It’s my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “This is going to take some time, but the people of Baltimore can count on us though to stick with them at every step of the way until the port is reopen and the bridge is rebuilt.”
He said he spoke with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Tuesday morning, as well as Maryland officials including its congressional delegation and two U.S. senators. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to the Baltimore site.
Ha, we’ll see. I liked the extensive copy-paste with its sourcing, but mods apparently didn’t like me copy-pasting the same huge comment into any thread where someone started up with “we all agree Biden didn’t do shit, it’s so well known I don’t even need to go into details, it’s definitely just something we all agree on…”. I do kind of get the objection to doing that, so I retyped it this time but still gave a link to the places the sources are found. We’ll see what the mods do with it.
Cool