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.
I’m pretty sure they were going to do that with or without him. the party responsible for the incident should be the one fitting the bill
Yes, but ascertaining liability and securing a payout is a process that may take many years of being dragged through the courts, if it is even successful at all.
The government making money available immediately does help get things going with less uncertainty about who can foot the bill.
Yeah that’s a great way to get an immediate injunction from a judge. That’s not how these things work.
I’m gonna ignore all the legalities that would have to be worked around to even attempt that plan, and skip straight to the final step of selling the seized goods.
Not sure that fire damaged and/or waterlogged goods are gonna fetch a good price. The ship burned, and partially sank.
Footing the bill… but yes. Then again, maybe with the amount of shipping traffic a tunnel makes more sense.
We have two nearby tunnels. They’ll be packed now. But hazmat trucks and larger oversized vehicles can’t go through tunnels. There’s also a longer way around the northwest of the city, but that’ll be crowded now too. That’s where everyone lives. The bridge over the river was the interstate trucking corridor from DC to Philly up to New York and Boston.
The problem was the boat.
… and the bridge. Evidently there’s no safety structure around the support that would have prevented a ship from hitting the bridge.
People keep saying “Key Bridge” and idk if they’re referring to the name or the fact that it’s a vital port for the east coast
Well, obviously.
Its not like they are gonna go “you know what, it can’t fall any further, lets just leave well enough alone.”
I mean he could’ve shown up 2 weeks late, and starting throwing Paper Towels at people.
Because if you’ll remember that is all our former president did and it led to 2975 People Dying
By himself, with fused vertebrae? Doubt.
They wouldn’t want reconstruction money coming from the $1b cop city project
