Posted on 11/06/24
| News Source: WBAL TV
Some Baltimore infrastructure projects could be in jeopardy amid the election of President-elect Donald Trump to serve a second term in the White House, according to the mayor.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Wednesday morning that the grit that makes city residents so resilient will be needed over the next four years.
Scott said he vows to work with the Trump administration, but only if it approaches collaboration as an equal partner. In the same breath, the Democratic mayor said if Trump's second term is anything like the first, he worries that Baltimore will be used as a political football.
The mayor warned billions of dollars in federal funding that the Biden administration earmarked for the city could now be at risk.
"We have to think about the (collapsed Francis Scott) Key Bridge. We have to think about the Frederick Douglass Tunnel. We have to think about the Howard Street Tunnel. We have to think about the Red Line. We have to think about the Highway to Nowhere. All of those things could just go away, right? And, people have to understand how serious and how real the implications are for the city of Baltimore," Scott said.
The mayor called those projects essential as he heads into his own second term of what he called "Baltimore's renaissance."