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Biden vows to reopen Baltimore port, rebuild collapsed Key Bridge
The Hill ^ | 03/26/2024 | ALEX GANGITANO

Posted on 03/26/2024 10:40:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: balitmore; biden; bridge; francisscottkey; fskbridge; rebuild
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To: Sacajaweau

You must not know the area. 30k a day use that bridge. And there’s still massive traffic at certain times of the day.


41 posted on 03/26/2024 11:11:31 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Ge0ffrey

Hopefully not the paper mache they build high rises with in China.


42 posted on 03/26/2024 11:12:05 AM PDT by ssfromla (All of this is to see how far they can push us and I have to tell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That 45 day emergency rebuild just turned into 24 months now that booty boy is on the job.


43 posted on 03/26/2024 11:13:05 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: mewzilla

That would be good. And it will take a long time to get anything moving along. It’s govt after all. So, I don’t see that as an issue. But, to say a bridge will be rebuilt is just expected talk after a disaster.


44 posted on 03/26/2024 11:13:34 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: SharpenedEdge

Even though I have zero faith it BitMe or Buttigieg ability to manage this competently, the bridge is part of US interstate system (I-695). Federal responsibility. The feds would have to fork over the money even if it was in a red state.


45 posted on 03/26/2024 11:13:37 AM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Low LI Parkway overpasses were all about keeping black kids from going to the beach? What an idiot.

They were built that way partly because those roads weren’t intended for trucks. How does he sleep at night coming up with that crazy shit?


46 posted on 03/26/2024 11:14:58 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

““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,”

Translation: he’ll have an amendment to fund this new bridge stuck in a bill that legalizes abortion nationwide, gives 100 billion to Ukraine and gives amnesty to 30 million illegal aliens


47 posted on 03/26/2024 11:14:59 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: SlipperySlope99

I have a great idea. They should mandate that the design engineer must be a lesbian woman of color, and all construction workers must identify as LGBTQIA+WTFIDKLMFAO, preferably BLM members.

Then we can all sit back and watch the enormous cost overruns, and eventually, the second collapse. It will be blamed on white supremacist saboteurs.


48 posted on 03/26/2024 11:15:03 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: HollyB

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/travel-around-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-baltimore-traffic/


49 posted on 03/26/2024 11:18:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Put Giggles Harris on it, as team leader.


50 posted on 03/26/2024 11:18:19 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But because it was named after the “wasis” writer of the White National Anthem, we’re going to name the new bridge after the writer of the new Negro National Anthem, RIGHT JO JO?


51 posted on 03/26/2024 11:18:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("A Noble Heart Can Know No Ease Without Freedom.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

President Biden reveals that he took the train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge “many times” during his commute even though the bridge didn’t have train tracks. Very impressive!

Biden, who appeared to be taking a train that didn’t need tracks to operate, said he remembers all the times he commuted on the bridge.

“At about 1:30, container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many times, commuting from the state of Delaware either on a train or by car.”

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1772684436959797621


52 posted on 03/26/2024 11:19:44 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And Ms. Camela Harris will be da new bridge czar and architect of ship proof pylona.


53 posted on 03/26/2024 11:22:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("A Noble Heart Can Know No Ease Without Freedom.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

East Palestine Ohio would have loved this sort of attention.


54 posted on 03/26/2024 11:22:51 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: lowbridge
President Biden reveals that he took the train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge “many times” during his commute even though the bridge didn’t have train tracks. Very impressive!

Clearly he is still suffering from the loss of Beau in that terrible bridge collapse accident.

55 posted on 03/26/2024 11:23:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Until we assign responsibility for the incident, how can Biden offer to pay all the costs? He didn't offer that to East Palestine?
56 posted on 03/26/2024 11:25:02 AM PDT by kabar
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yeah, but the deal will be that it has to be renamed the George Floyd/Trayvon Martin bridge.


57 posted on 03/26/2024 11:26:44 AM PDT by dforest
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To: TornadoAlley3
Mayor Pete is second to Mayorkis in worst Biden appointee.

Debatable. There are many competitors for this position, including Antony Blinken, Merrick Garland, John Kerry, Lloyd Austin, Karine Jean-Pierre ...

58 posted on 03/26/2024 11:27:01 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HOW MANY NO-BID CONTRACTS ARE ALREADY LINING UP?????

BIDEN MIGHT 15% !!!


59 posted on 03/26/2024 11:27:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let me guess, he is going to call in a ChiCom construction team to build the new bridge, complete with built-in traffic sensors, radio jamming equipment, and special explosive sections that they can use for controlled demolition.


60 posted on 03/26/2024 11:27:31 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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