Republican blasts Biden’s first reaction to Baltimore bridge collapse: ‘No thought. Just spend’

A Republican lawmaker blasted President Joe Biden’s initial reaction to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, claiming he had not put any thought into how to handle the incident.

Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) said Biden’s promise that the federal government would fund the repair of the bridge was “outrageous” and asserted that the federal government “can’t just take the east route.”

“It was kind of outrageous immediately for Biden to express in this tragedy the idea that he’s going to use federal funds to pay for the entirety [of the bridge],” Meuser told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. “First reaction, frankly the only reaction, tends to be to spend. We just can’t take the easy route all the time and just try to spend the
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