Biden says Pittsburgh bridge collapse shows how poor infrastructure ‘can threaten lives’

President Joe Biden made an unscheduled visit to the site of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon, during a trip originally meant to tout his legislative agenda — including the landmark infrastructure law he signed last year.

“We saw today, when a bridge is in disrepair, it literally can threaten lives,” Biden said in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mill 19, just a few miles from the collapsed bridge.

The bridge, said Biden, “had been rated in poor condition for the past 10 years.”