President Joe Biden will visit the site of the I-95 bridge collapse on Saturday and receive a briefing on reconstruction efforts.
Biden, who was already scheduled to be in Philadelphia for a reelection rally with union workers, will go on an aerial tour of the site, according to the White House, and then meet with officials to learn about repair efforts. Gov. Josh Shapiro will join the president, the governor’s office said.
The section of I-95, which collapsed after a truck carrying gasoline overturned and caught fire beneath a highway overpass, killing the driver, carried an average of 160,000 vehicles daily.
Shapiro has vowed a speedy fix to the roadway without giving a specific timeline for completion. Shapiro said this week that he’d freed up $7 million in state funds and the federal government had allocated $3 million so far to the project.
Later in the afternoon, Biden is scheduled to appear at the Convention Center with members of the AFL-CIO and other unions for a reelection rally from noon to 3 p.m.
Biden has made supporting labor a focus of his presidency, and unions played a big role in his 2020 presidential campaign.
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