That means Washingtonians are going to end up paying for the bridge three times with their state taxes, their federal taxes, and then a third time if they actually end up using the bridge itself. I'm completely against that. We should use federal funds so that the people in the district only have to pay for this once. But a third bridge, that would take away a lot of that trucking traffic. It would take it off of the local access bridge, give us real congestion, really. (25:36–25:42)
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Asserts that federal funding should cover the bridge to avoid multiple payments by residents.
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