Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told Newsmax on Wednesday that the first priority in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore is recovering the victims who are still missing. The second priority, however, is figuring out how to “cut through the red tape” and get the bridge rebuilt.

“The first thing we have to do is we have to recover the victims,” Harris said during an appearance on “Wake Up America.” “But, soon after we recover the victims, we have to plan on how we’re going to get the Port of Baltimore open and then, in the long term, how we’re going to rebuild the bridge. The port is very important to the local economy. We have 15,000 workers who work at the port; it’s millions of dollars a day we lose, plus all the supply chain interruption that we’re having.”

“So again, we’ve got to move forward,” he continued. “We recover the victims, get the port back open and then what we have to do is we have to deal with the federal regulations that would make this a very difficult rebuilding job and a very lengthy rebuilding job. We have to cut through the red tape and just get it done.”

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