Republicans are continuing to criticize President Biden for not visiting East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic, cancer-causing chemicals derailed Feb. 3.
Republicans are continuing to criticize President Biden for not visiting East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic,Biden has yet to make a trip to the area, sending Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and federal officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency to the disaster site in his stead.was “the biggest slap in the face,” East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway, a Republican, told Fox News.
“The idea that we are not engaged is just simply not there,” Biden said. “Initially, there was not a request for me to go out even before I was heading over to Kyiv. I am keeping very close tabs on it. We are doing all we can.”into the Department of Transportation’s handling of the disaster. “I think offering the assistance, offering the help is doing it directly,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday. “When you are seeing the federal government on the ground, providing the assistance that is needed, that is doing it directly. They are doing it on the direction of the president.”
Trump, who is running for president, criticized the government’s handling of the disaster, which he characterized as “indifference and betrayal.”Republicans have trained much of their criticism of the administration’s response to the disaster on
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