President Biden Visits The Port Of Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — President Biden is astatine the Port of Baltimore this hr touting the trillion dollar infrastructure bill.

The president arrived present astir 3:15 p.m. by Marine One from Delaware, wherever helium attended a memorial work for the precocious Gov. Ruth Minner.

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Biden is expected to motion that infrastructure measure soon and says the ports similar the 1 present successful Baltimore volition spot important improvements and bring jobs.

It’s President Biden’s 2nd travel to Baltimore successful 3 weeks. Wednesday kicks disconnected his infrastructure circuit aft Congress passed a trillion dollar measure this weekend.

“The larboard is the beating bosom of this region’s economy,” said Rep. John Sarbanes.

The measure allocates $17 cardinal dollars to ports, providing national backing to assistance with dredging projects to pull much ships and prolong jobs.

“We tin physique different 50-foot berth to instrumentality those precise large ships,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

“This astir the largest ships successful the satellite coming into the larboard and being capable to conscionable ellipse successful and retired and the efficiencies that volition springiness us,” said Maryland Secretary of Transportation Greg Slater.

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The White House ports envoy told WJZ Tuesday the U.S. is playing catch-up to different countries.

The larboard manager is anxious to amusement the president the agriculture instrumentality exports.

“And we’re going to amusement him the caller cranes, the ongoing operation and the berths astatine the piers,” said Maryland Ports Administration enforcement manager William Doyle. “We’re going to amusement him everything.”

“What we privation to amusement the president is our workforce,” said Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger.

A workforce connected a tract which volition request an electrical overhaul to accommodate to imports.

“Electrical vehicles are going to beryllium coming disconnected that vessel and they’re going to request to beryllium charged and we are going to request to person charging stations astatine the Port of Baltimore,” said Doyle

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In summation to the elected officials, the White House invited 2 Maryland missive writers to conscionable with President Biden today, Angela Grimes and Dr. Lisa Cerbone-Jensen, described arsenic “supporters” of the bill.

Paul Gessler