Biden Heads to Baltimore for 150-Year-Old Tunnel Replacement Ceremony
2023.01.30 10:31
Biden Heads to Baltimore for 150-Year-Old Tunnel Replacement Ceremony
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden travels to Baltimore to prove that he is a “builder-in-chief.” This visit to friendly political territory stands in stark contrast to Washington’s partisan debt battle.
The event will commemorate the planned replacement of the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which has been in use for 150 years. The replacement will be funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure law, which was one of Biden’s biggest legislative victories and passed Congress with support from both parties.
On Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, which connects Washington, New York, and Boston, the U.S. Civil War-era tunnel is a major chokepoint for commuter and long-distance rail traffic.
Officials are getting ready to start work on a $5 billion project that will include a new tunnel named after the abolitionist and supporter of the Underground Railroad Frederick Douglass. They hope that the tunnel will be operational by 2032.
Biden, who is thinking about running for president again in 2024, is eager to tout his credentials as a bipartisan dealmaker who can accelerate infrastructure projects to ease climate change, boost economic growth, halt inflation, and create high-paying union jobs for people who don’t have a college degree.
Biden is confronted with a harsher reality in Washington because Republicans now hold control of the House of Representatives and are threatening to thwart his economic agenda, stymie his programs for conducting investigations, and obstruct the raising of the debt ceiling in order to compel spending cuts.
On Wednesday, Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are scheduled to meet in person to discuss the debt impasse, which has the potential to send the United States into an unprecedented default.
Biden, a Democrat who boasts about his alliance with labor unions, will attend the event on Monday in liberal Baltimore. The event is expected to be attended by the Democratic governor of the state as well as two senators. According to a White House official, he is anticipated to announce a tunnel project agreement between Amtrak and a labor group.
“The last time I walked it, they still had lights on a string hanging down, leaks in the roof,” Biden said of the tunnel on Thursday during a speech for union workers in Virginia. There is a great deal of concern that a portion of everything might collapse as everything slows down.”
Similar activities related to the Hudson River are planned by Biden for Tuesday in New York (NYSE:). Project for a tunnel He will speak at an event in Philadelphia on Friday about the provisions of the infrastructure bill that replace toxic lead pipes.
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