On Friday, against the backdrop of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore’s shuttered harbor, President Joe Biden forged a path straight towards partisan pushback regarding how his administration plans to rebuild the critical river crossing and vital Potomac River port.
We’re going to move heaven and earth, to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible. We’re gonna do so with union labor and American steel. For a simple reason: They’re the best workers in the world, and that’s not hyperbole.
As the White House sent an official request to Congress asking for authorization to cover the full cost of rebuilding the bridge, Biden vowed,
I fully intend, as the governor knows, to have the federal government cover the cost of the of the building of this entire bridge, all of it. All of it.
Biden’s pledge clashed with conditions outlined by the…
