Nancy Mace blames Biden's infrastructure law after ship strike collapses Baltimore bridge

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) suggested President Joe Biden's infrastructure law was to blame after a ship struck a Baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse.

Mace was asked about the bridge collapse during a Tuesday interview on Newsmax.

"I'm sure you'll hear the Democrats have a press release and conference somewhere today or tomorrow about the need for a trillion-dollar infrastructure program after all the other ones," host Rob Astorino noted. "It seems like we do have these infrastructure bills, lots of money in it. I mean, I've been under bridges. They're horrible to look at.

"You look and you see rust, if you drive over bridges, you see things you are like, am I going to make it over this?" he continued. "The bridges are definitely old. The roads are old. But why, after all these bills, after all the money, do we still have really old bridges and really old roads?"

Mace insisted that the infrastructure funds were not going to roads and bridges.

"Because we're not spending it on roads and bridges," she asserted without citing any evidence. "Look at the one point two trillion dollar infrastructure bill that was done a couple years ago that the left hails as this massive success, but it was mostly Green New Deal."

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"Mostly in that bill, one hundred and ten billion went to surface transportation, which is roads and bridges," Mace said. "And of that one hundred and ten billion, 70 billion went to public transportation, leaving only 40 billion for traditional roads and bridges."

Mace voted against the 2023 infrastructure bill that provided funds for roads and bridges.

"Let's talk reality: Less than 10% of this bill goes to true infrastructure, like roads and bridges. It 'bails' out Amtrak, despite receiving millions from COVID-19 relief funds. There are also 42 new taxes in the bill. Those taxes will be passed on to consumers, and prices on goods will continue to rise to historic highs," the lawmaker said in a statement.

Mace later touted funding in her district provided by the infrastructure bill.

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