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context: Is the funding for this from the infrastructure bill that McConnell did not vote for?
  Edit: McConnell's republican friends. >
  
  McConnell voted for the bill. >
  
  Noted, thank you. Still wish the article would say where the federal funds were from. >
  
  
  The two states coordinated to request funding under the bipartisan infrastructure deal signed last year by President Joe Biden, a Democrat who had touted the project while the legislation was under consideration. >
  
  I’m from the area and this has been a pain point for years—decades even. They even proposed tolls and paid parking to pay for it, iirc. It was left sitting because Ohio doesn’t own the bridge and Kentucky didn’t wanna pay for it. 
  Fucking hate red states.
  PS: driving over that bridge is hell. too many cars going fast as fuck and driving like assholes. No shoulder. It especially sucks when you live in KY but work in OH & you gotta drive on it every day. >
  
  But I thought conservatives hated socialism and government handouts. >
  
  Kentucky has been at war with the rest of the US since the last Civil War; they keep electing the worst and do everything they can to sabotage the rest of the country. 
  I feel less upset reading about aid ending up in Taliban hands, they only wish they could be as damaging - and they have a better excuse. >
  
  Kentucky was Union during the Civil War.
  Slave holding, yes, but still Union. >
  
  Thank you!
  To be clear, I was intending that it meant after the conclusion but did not know they were union. Also, I was exaggerating for effect but it doesn't really read that way. Either way, you got me. >
  
  It isn't that clear cut they were a border state that had union and confederate supporting areas. The richer parts generally supported the union. >
  
  Thanks Brandon!  We love what you're doing for all Americans. >
  
  But of course, McConnell didn't support the Infrastructure bill that was pushed and approved by the Democrats with only 12 GOP members supporting it but still wanting to take credit.  The GOP Fraudsters.. #GOPFraudsters. >
  
  19 Cons voted for it, McConnell was one of them. >
  
  Ok.  Thanks.  I stand corrected.