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Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday there will be “accountability” if an investigation finds that specific entities or individuals are responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse.
The Secretary of Transportation’s promise comes after President Joe Biden promised, on the day the Francis Scott Bridge fell into the Patapsco River, that the federal government would foot the bill for reconstruction.
The 1.6-mile bridge partially collapsed after a cargo container ship crashed into one of its support structures shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
‘The President said yesterday that the federal government will pay the full cost of reconstruction. But if he finds out that someone involved here was responsible, why not make him pay? Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Buttigieg.
Biden’s DOT chief responded: “Yes, there is no question that if the investigation determines that one or more private parties are responsible, they will be held accountable.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that if anyone is found responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse, they will be “held accountable.”
A freighter crashed into a support structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, causing the 1.6-mile-long bridge to collapse into the Patapsco River. In the photo: The ship remains trapped under the ruins of the bridge on Wednesday, March 27.
This comes after conspiracies emerged online that the crash was somehow intentional, even after authorities dismissed concerns that it could be a terrorist attack.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was among those who said the ship that hit the bridge had a purpose.
“There should be a serious investigation into the horrible Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy in Maryland,” the far-right congresswoman posted on X, formerly Twitter. ‘Is this an intentional attack or an accident?’
David Simon, creator of the Baltimore-based crime drama The Wire, called MTG a “submarine nonsense of a human being” for spreading the conspiracy and said on X that it was probably “port operations” and “bridge maintenance.” the culprits of the disaster. tragedy.
Six missing workers who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse are presumed dead, but the search for their bodies continues.
President Biden responded to the horrific collapse, which was caught on camera, in remarks from the White House on Tuesday.
‘We will get it up and running again as soon as possible. 15,000 jobs depend on that port. And we’re going to do everything we can to protect those jobs,” Biden said. “I am ordering my team to move Heaven and Earth Three, open the port, and rebuild the bridge as soon as possible.”
And he added: ‘My intention is for the federal government to pay the full cost of rebuilding that bridge. I hope Congress will support my effort; this will take some time. The people of Baltimore can count on us to support them every step of the way.”
“We won’t leave until this job is done.”
The bridge is part of a vital highway system in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and is located at a busy international port. Many are speculating how the collapse will severely impact both daily travel and port operations in the coming years.
President Joe Biden said in remarks at the White House on Tuesday that the federal government would foot the bill for rebuilding. ‘My intention is for the federal government to pay the full cost of rebuilding that bridge. “I hope Congress will support my effort, this will take some time,” Biden said.
Biden claimed he crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge for years during his Amtrak train trip from Delaware to Washington, D.C., but his route did not pass through the area and no train tracks passed over the bridge.
“There are certainly a lot of ports on the East Coast,” Buttigieg told MSNBC in a Morning Joe interview. There is no substitute for the Port of Baltimore being up and running.’
The Secretary of Transportation said at another point in the interview: “We are doing everything we can so that we can get this bridge back up and that port open again.”
Florida Congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini said on X on Tuesday that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is to blame for the collapse.
Republicans claim DEI is used to promote unfair practices that discriminate against certain groups and push primarily liberal agendas. They say companies should not engage in DEI and instead focus on doing the best job they can of delivering their service.
Sabatini’s claim that ‘DEI did this’ regarding the bridge collapse could refer to hiring practices implemented to meet certain quotas rather than focusing time and resources on maintaining high-quality bridge structure and port operations.