President Joe Biden will visit for the first time the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge outside Baltimore, Maryland, on April 5, after making the short drive up I-95 from Washington, D.C.
His arrival comes more than a week after the collapse occurred, and it follows his administration’s commitment to provide $60 million in emergency funding to cover the costs of initial mobilization, operations, and debris recovery.
“The president has been very, very clear: He wants to make sure that we make the community of Baltimore whole again,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a media briefing on April 4. “And he has said that the federal government will certainly cover the bridge being built.”…
