Federal government will pay to rebuild Baltimore’s Key Bridge ‘in full’, Biden says

Holly Patrick

26 March 2024 at 1:25 pm·1-min read

Joe Biden said he wants the federal government to pay for the costs of rebuilding Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after it collapsed when a container ship crashed into it in the early hours of Tuesday, 26 March.

The US president told a reporter who asked if the company that owns the cargo-carrying vessel called the Dali should pay for the reconstruction: "We're not going to wait for that to happen."

The ship crashed into a pillar of the bridge around half an hour after setting sail at approximately 1:30am EDT (5:30am GMT) on a 27-day journey to Sri Lanka.

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