BALTIMORE – President Joe Biden told reporters Friday that he plans to travel to Baltimore next week. fatal bridge collapse.
“I’m going to Baltimore next week,” the president told reporters as he landed Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews after several campaign stops in New York on Thursday and Friday.
The Maryland city is the site of a major bridge collapse that occurred early Tuesday morning after the freighter Daly crashed into an abutment on the Francis Scott Key Bridge after losing power.
6 construction workers on the bridge were shot they died after the event.
Biden told reporters Tuesday that he told Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other state officials that “we’re going to send all the federal resources they need to respond to this emergency, and I mean all the federal resources. And we’re going to rebuild that port together.” “
He also called the incident a “terrible accident” and confirmed that there was no evidence that the ship had deliberately hit the bridge.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in Baltimore with Maryland officials on Tuesday. During a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday, Buttigieg told reporters, “From the beginning [Biden] He acted to make sure we had a whole-of-government response to support the people of Baltimore.
Thursday, Moore spoke of six victims“They were fathers, sons, husbands, people their families trusted,” he said.
“They had no idea that going to work would turn into a fatality,” he said.