Biden To Visit Port Of Baltimore To Talk Infrastructure

Baltimore MD

08 November, 2021

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BALTIMORE, MD — President Joseph Biden is coming to Baltimore to promote his infrastructure bill. Biden will visit the Port of Baltimore Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. It is the second time in three weeks Biden will be in Charm City. He visited Center Stage in Baltimore on Oct. 21 for a CNN town hall meeting moderated by Anderson Cooper. During that event, the president said his bill contained $16 billion for port expansion nationwide. "We have to be able to move things along," Biden said during the town hall in Baltimore on Oct. 21, speaking of supply chain issues. "First of all, I want to get the ports up and running, and get the railroads and the rail heads and the trucks in port ready to move." The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will "transform our transportation system with the most significant investments in passenger and freight rail, roads, bridges, ports, airports, and public transit in generations," Biden said. His visit to Baltimore is an attempt to show people exactly what is in the bill, which many people say they support but do not necessarily understand, according to the Associated Press. It will provide an estimated $6 billion for projects in Maryland, according to U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat who represents the Free State. "I worked to secure key elements in this plan to support Maryland directly, including investments in crucial economic drivers in our state like the Port of Baltimore and a healthy Chesapeake Bay," Van Hollen said in a statement following the bill's passage Friday night. "I also fought to include provisions I authored to reconnect communities that had been split apart by 1960s federal transportation projects like the Highway to Nowhere in West Baltimore." Van Hollen said the bill reauthorizes $150 million in annual federal contributions for WMATA for eight years, includes "language to keep federal funding for the Baltimore Red Line metro project" and more than $150 million in high-speed internet and clean energy investments. See Also: Biden Hypes $1T Bill Impact On Electric Cars: AP Fact CheckPresident Biden To Visit Baltimore For Town Hall