Congress will need to beef up federal emergency funding by billions of dollars to help support the rebuild of Baltimore’s collapsed bridge, the federal highway administrator told lawmakers Wednesday.
Maryland lawmakers pushing Congress and President Joe Biden to support rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge are confronting a backlog of already unmet needs in the account the Federal Highway Administration taps to help pay for emergency projects. A replacement for the Baltimore bridge, which crumbled in late March when a massive ship collided into the structure, would seek money from a fund already facing a shortfall, Shailen Bhatt, head of ...