They have played their part as well, they have been a mess in Baltimore. But it would be nice if Republicans wanted to even pretend Baltimore existed outside the occasional comment about how bad it is. Heck if Hogan supported the Red Line that would have been something as well but we just had to have another metro line to follow I495 and the ICC down in DC. And the red line even had federal funding behind it(Back in 2015 when that stuff was going down). If Baltimore is 'far worse' than the border, then Trump needs to handle it with the same amount of urgency at least if not far more. I don't see any national emergencies being declared. I don't see any shutdowns happening. Where is the urgency? I thought you guys cared about American citizens, guess that is just campaign talk.
As for the Howard Street tunnel, here is an opportunity to actually get money funded towards something that needs it and they don't fund it fully. I mean if we are again 'far worse' than the southern border then it should be a national emergency. You would imagine that people would want to get a handle on the problem. That is kinda what you do in an emergency. And the Howard Street tunnel is not even the tip of the iceberg. Where is the federal funding then to help out with the police and infrastructure and public transportation? Did you hear about the massive sinkhole from a water main break that shut things down at Howard and Pratt? Even in Towson the water main breaks have been crazy. If things are so bad here then why not handle it with the same urgency as the border? I haven't even brought up the homicide rate.
And here is one thing Trump can certainly lend a hand with when he gets his restaurants up to snuff
https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-company-faced-fines-and-code-violations-700180
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-restaurants-mice-health-20190207-story.html
But my main problem with Trump here is that if some guy from out of town starts ragging on where you live to score political points, you aren't going to like it. It doesn't matter if he is right. Frankly he isn't telling us things we don't already know. We live here. I can't think of a single person running around saying that Baltimore doesn't have big problems who lives here. But if the only reason you bring it up is to rag on someone else, it just comes off as whining to me. Even the dems who complain about Trump are actually doing stuff. Omar helped set up the 9/11 first responder bill that recently went through no thanks to Rand Paul and Mike Lee(speaking of, still waiting for Fox and Trump to lay into them, maybe I missed it). If Baltimore is worse than the southern border, I want the problem to be treated with the same amount of urgency, especially from the most powerful man in the free world.