Biden to Visit Collapsed Baltimore Bridge

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.”...