Biden vows to reopen Baltimore port, rebuild collapsed Key Bridge
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.
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
Yes.
The vital Key Bridge
It's the name.
I Live 20 mins from the bridge and it's what it's always been called. Way better than the full name in terms of efficiency lol
DC has its own key bridge, so it's doubly confusing for that reason.
Well, obviously.
Its not like they are gonna go "you know what, it can't fall any further, lets just leave well enough alone."
By himself, with fused vertebrae? Doubt.
They wouldn't want reconstruction money coming from the $1b cop city project
Remember kids... ALWAYS socialise the costs!
Yeah, that's how roads and bridges are built moron.
Well, axchually... toll roads and bridges are a thing. Even if they're built by a gov't that recoups its' costs, I'd say that counts as a user-pay situation.
A toll is a kind of tax. There's a one-time tax to build the bridge, and then a per-use tax to maintain it.
Is this satire?
If not, do you want to wait 20 years until the lawsuits against the shipping companies (yes, plural) are all done and appeals finished before you can extract a few million to cover part of the multiple hundred millions a rebuild will cost?
Infrastructure is too important.
You are so deep in the system, you can't tell you are drowning
Go back to your bear plagued libertarian town
I get ya man, corporations steal constantly and when they break stuff we pay for it. The corpos won't pay their fuckin taxes and then break shit.
Any minute now... Just like his other "vows".
Also, crazy how the headline makes it sound sure to happen, and his actual statement is filled with weasel words.
Give politicians credit for what they do, not for they "vow" to do.
Jesus Christ dude, it's been like 12 hours. What do you expect him to have done by now?
What would be cool is not use federal funds to repair a bridge a billions dollar company damaged...
If I drive into a house, me or my insurance has to pay for it...
But when a billion dollar corporation destroys critical infrastructure, our tax dollars pay for it?
Explain that to me.
Why do we pay for our mistakes and companies mistakes?
When do companies pay?
That's quite a change from:
In the span of two comments you've gone from complaining that he never does anything to complaining that be shouldn't be doing this.
It's almost like you're not here in good faith...
It's almost like sometimes there's multiple bad things about a situation...
Yeah, but it seems pretty disingenuous to complain that Biden is simultaneously making empty promises but not actually doing anything while also wasting taxpayer money fixing a bridge.
Yeah, the government never wastes money to accomplish nothing...
It's not like trump shut down the government a couple years ago to secure funding for a non existent border wall...
Side note:
Have you ever wondered about a Memento reboot where only one person in the world retained their long term memories?
Every one else just forgets everything after like 20 seconds and gets taken advantage of by a small group of psychopaths?
So now you are certain the bridge will be rebuilt?
So, just to recap.
First, you complained that Biden is nothing but empty promises.
Then you complained that taxpayers have to pay for the bridge (if it was an empty promise nobody is paying for it)
Now you're complaining that it's all a waste of money and nothing will be accomplished anyway (do you think we, as a society, are incapable of building a bridge?)
It kind of sounds like you're just going to bitch and moan no matter what.
I remember Trump shutting down the government. Do you think this situation is remotely similar? Does half the population not want this bridge in place?
If that remake does happen, you're not the one that's going to be keeping your memory. You can't even seem to remember what point you were trying to argue when you can just scroll up and read it again.
Just recap:
12 hours ago you randomly insulted me, deleted the comment, and now 12 hours later youre trying to start an argument again in the same thread and close it out with more insults?
Why would you think I wouldn't just block you?
The company will pay eventually - it's mostly about making the money available as soon as possible before the legal responsibilities are cleared up
Hahahahhahaha, hahahhahaha....
Deep breathe
Hahahahahhahahaha
So the US Government should not make money available ASAP to rebuild the bridge, but instead wait for the laughable scenario that the company pays for the damages?
The quick list is biggest single action on climate change in US history, estimated to hit a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030, $144 billion forgiveness of student loan debt, lowest unemployment in 20 years (or 50 depending on how you count) even after the Covid apocalypse which most countries haven't even dug out from yet, wage inequality going down for the first time in I have no idea how long, Amazon paying $3 billion per quarter in corporate tax instead of the negative $1.2 billion they were paying before his corporate tax reform.
He vowed / attempted to do a certain amount more than that, yes, and getting that more stuff done also would be great too, but it's not like he's just been fucking off playing golf this whole time.
For what reason the news doesn't highlight that type of stuff and instead focuses on whatever they focus on, I have no idea.
Easy, they want outrage. Biden following through on some mundane promise made some time ago riles up exactly no one, therefore it doesn't get a headline. Modern media is extremely predictable in their approach.
Not to defend politicians or journalists.... But the headline is clear this is just a promise to act someday
Oh, there you go again