Congress authorized the project in 1986 but it has repeatedly stalled amid scrutiny by the Army Corps of Engineers. Michigan’s congressional delegation has long pushed for federal funding to build a new 1,200-foot-long lock to mirror the 49-year-old Poe Lock, which handles large freighters carrying iron ore. “You know that, right? And we’re going to get them fixed up.” “The Soo Locks are going to hell,” Trump told enthusiastic supporters who had spent hours in line to see him speak. Speaking to a capacity crowd Saturday night during a campaign-style rally Total Sports Park in Washington Township, the first-term Republican promised to “fix” the aging locks after discussing the project with Michigan lawmakers on his way to the venue.
Washington Township - President Donald Trump’s unexpected embrace of a half-billion dollar Soo Locks modernization project has given new momentum to a three-decade effort to update the aging freight passage infrastructure in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. View Gallery: President Trump holds rally in Macomb County
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