President Biden highlights bipartisanship, infrastructure at Ohio-Kentucky bridge

President Joe Biden was at the Ohio-Kentucky border on Wednesday to announce that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $1.635 billion to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) to construct a new companion to the dilapidated Brent Spence Bridge.

Biden was joined by several representatives from both sides of the political aisle at the event in Covington, KY. The list included Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and former Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).

“We all know these are really partisan times. But I always feel that no matter who gets elected, once it’s all over, we ought to look for things that we can agree on and try to do those, even while we have big differences on other things,” McConnell said in brief remarks before Biden took the stage. The Senate's minority leader called the bridge an example of bipartisanship that the “country needs to see.”


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