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The head of the Small Business Administration visited Baltimore on Thursday, speaking with local leaders and business owners whose firms have been impacted by last week’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Speaking after the roundtable at one of the agency’s two recovery centers near the Port of Baltimore, SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman said business owners described a “full ...

President Joe Biden is expected to get a firsthand look Friday at efforts to clear away the hulking remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, as cranes, ships and diving crews work to reopen one of the nation's main shipping lanes. Biden will receive updates from the U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps of Engineers hopes to open a limited-access channel for barge container ships and some vessels moving cars and farm equipment by the end of this month and to restore normal capacity to Baltimore's port by May 31, the White House says.

What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse and Biden's visit as the cleanup begins

Biden gets to tout his credentials as the president who turned on the spigot of infrastructure funding, but he’ll still need to use the podium to call on Congress to act fast.

"We have upgraded gossip and rumor and downgraded expertise and education. It’s a terrible trade," writes Joan Brickner.