Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Joins Officials At Port Of Baltimore To Promote Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg toured the Seagirt and Dundalk Marine Terminals Thursday, 2 of the Port of Baltimore’s six nationalist terminals to physique enactment for a much than fractional a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.

Buttigieg, alongside Governor Larry Hogan and Mayor Brandon Scott, had his archetypal travel to the port.

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“This is simply a erstwhile successful a procreation accidental to alteration our infrastructure,” Buttigieg said.

The Senate Wednesday voted to statesman statement connected a $550 cardinal bipartisan infrastructure bill.

“The larboard of Baltimore stands to beryllium 1 of the large beneficiaries of this large national infrastructure package,” Hogan said.

Buttigieg said critics should see investments different countries are making.

“Nothing happens successful isolation,” Buttigieg said. “What goes connected astatine this larboard impacts radical who unrecorded a 1000 miles distant from immoderate coast.”

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No U.S. Port handles much workplace and operation instrumentality oregon cars. It’s besides 1 of the fewer eastbound seashore ports with a 50-foot channel, attracting immoderate of the largest instrumentality ships successful the world.”

“Our city, our authorities is acceptable for this infrastructure bundle to payment not conscionable business, but people,” Mayor Scott said.

The measure would dedicate 17 cardinal dollars for ports.

“This measure is going to make much bully jobs for Americans,” said Senator Ben Cardin.

A caller CBS News canvass shows a bulk of Americans enactment the bipartisan infrastructure program with overwhelming enactment for circumstantial elements of some plans.

“We are each agreed successful our shared committedness to bipartisan action,” Hogan said.

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Officials accidental the measure would assistance hole oregon amended galore of Maryland’s astir 300 bridges and much than 2 1000 miles of road successful mediocre condition.

Paul Gessler