BALTIMORE, MD – Former two-term Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he's urging fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill to support federal funding to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. 'I’m going to push them as hard as I can. I’ve already called a couple of Republican Senate leaders and started working them,' Hogan, who's running for a Democratic-controlled open Senate seat in his home state, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview on Thursday.
Hogan, who served eight years as Maryland governor, has been out of office for 15 months. 'You go through dealing with crises and emergencies for eight years and there’s a reflex – I have to instantly take action,' Hogan said of his tenure as governor. He added that 'it’s a little strange' not to be part of the crisis management team. Hogan noted that 'I did immediately reach out to Gov.
During his last year as governor, Republican leaders in the nation's capital and in Maryland heavily courted Hogan to run for the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections against Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen. But Hogan declined, saying in a news conference in February of that year that 'as I have repeatedly said, I don't aspire to be a United States senator.
But Hogan told Fox News that 'I absolutely do not' support a federal abortion ban being pushed by some Republicans. 'All the Democrats started attacking me the first day just because I was Republican and saying I would,' Hogan charged. Hogan has said he personally opposes abortion. And as governor, he vetoed legislation to end a restriction that only physicians provide abortions. His veto was overridden by the Democratic-controlled legislature.
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