āSickening that Republicans are now blaming Joe Bidenās infrastructure bill for this bridge accident. The sheer gall and naked opportunism and idiocy,ā epidemiologist says
RepublicansĀ are facingĀ criticism for attemptingĀ to blame theĀ BaltimoreĀ Bridge collapse on PresidentĀ Joe Bidenās infrastructure bill.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on Tuesday after a cargo ship crashed into it.Ā Six construction workers are presumed dead.
South CarolinaĀ RepresentativeĀ Nancy Maceappeared on the rightwing channel Newsmax on Tuesday when she was asked why there are still old bridges and roads in theĀ USĀ after theĀ passing of legislation to upgrade them.
There are ways to build bridges to take a hit like that, mostly through redundancy (making sure no pillar is a single point of failure, allowing it to stay standing if one pillar is torn down). Itās not cheap, but bridges over passageways to ports ought to be built that way for precisely this reason