‘Sickening that Republicans are now blaming Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill for this bridge accident. The sheer gall and naked opportunism and idiocy,’ epidemiologist says
Republicans are facing criticism for attempting to blame the Baltimore Bridge collapse on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on Tuesday after a cargo ship crashed into it. Six construction workers are presumed dead.
South Carolina Representative Nancy Maceappeared on the rightwing channel Newsmax on Tuesday when she was asked why there are still old bridges and roads in the US after the passing of legislation to upgrade them.
One quick point here. @MicroWave@lemmy.world 's link in the write-up is to a piece in the Independent that has a short paragraph on each of the 6 missing-presumed-dead victims of this accident.
It’s not usually possible to monetize this kind of background work, and i suspect most papers will skip the effort for that reason. But kudos to the Independent for giving us a face and a story to all of the names of the victims that people still couldn’t save. Keep us to task, and remind us how we could have been better, and show us personally why. This is the mirror we need sometimes.
The Apple News podcast this morning actually bothered to interview some of their family members and spoke at length about them.
Made me cry in the shower.