Ohio train derailment: Buttigieg slams ‘East Coast elite’ Republicans in response to backlash

TRansportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Attention was taken at Republicans Many have criticised him for how he handled the situation. Ohio train derailment He calls them hypocrites for their actions in the aftermath.

“It’s really rich to see some of these folks, the former president, these Fox hosts, who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” Buttigieg was a former Indiana mayor. told CNN.

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It took Buttigieg nearly three weeks for East Palestine to reach Ohio after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train derailed. A controlled burn followed, which released toxic chemicals like vinyl chloride in the soil and air. The former President Donald Trump The small village was visited shortly before Buttigieg left.

Buttigieg claimed that the Trump administration’s repeal of regulations on train brake systems could have contributed to the tragedy. “One thing he can do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch. I heard he said he had nothing to do with it, even though it was in his administration,” Buttigieg stated that Trump visited the country late last month. “maddening.”

Trump rejected these claims and won Columbiana County where East Palestine lies with over 70% of the votes in 2020’s general election. While visiting the village, he vehemently attacked President Joe Biden because he had traveled to that area. Ukraine Poland and the East Palestine community before they visited.

Biden did not visit the Ohio village. “I will be out there at some point