Biden criticized for not pushing foreign company to replace collapsed bridge

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Rep. Andy Harris questions why President Joe Biden is not pressuring the foreign company responsible for the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to replace the bridge and cover the costs of clearing the wreckage. Harris compares Biden's actions to his response in a previous incident involving railroad companies. He also doubts Biden's effectiveness during his visit to Baltimore, suggesting it may be mere grandstanding during an election year. The Army Corps of Engineers has been called in to clear the channel.

It's not clear why President Joe Biden, who was in Baltimore on Friday to visit the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, is not pushing harder for the company whose cargo ship caused the catastrophe to replace the bridge and pay the bill to clear the wreckage, Rep. Andy Harris said on Newsmax on Friday. "That's what he did in East Palestine," the Maryland Republican said on "Wake Up America." "He called for the railroad companies to do all the cleanup necessary.

I don't understand why he hasn't called for the same from those big foreign companies." Harris added that he doesn't think Biden will do a "whole lot" in Baltimore on Friday other than "grandstanding" during an election year. "The president has called in the Army Corps of Engineers," Harris said. "They just announced this morning that by the end of the month, they'll have a 35-foot channel cleared, and by the end of May, they plan to have the whole 50-foot channel cleared, so everything's in proces

 

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