By Lauren Burke, NNPA
On March 26, 2024, a container ship the size of three football fields named Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River in Baltimore. The catastrophe shut thirteen percent of Maryland’s economy, according to officials, and six people were killed. The cost to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge is close to two billion dollars. Maryland Governor Wes Moore called the event a “global crisis” that impacted 8,000 jobs. But over the last week, the collapse occurred because the latest political football tossed into play by President Donald Trump, who has traded barbs with Gov. Moore on social media.
On August 25, President Trump said, “I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that de