“That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us,” said East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway about Biden’s Kyiv visit following the town’s train derailment.
Trent Conaway, mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, ripped President Joe Biden for visiting Kyiv, Ukraine, as his village faces the fallout of a train derailment triggering a toxic chemical spill.
“Absolutely. That was the biggest slap in the face,” Conaway said. “That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us.”
This month, a 150-car train derailed and caused a toxic spill, which prompted local authorities to evacuate nearly 5,000 residents as officials disposed of vinyl chloride and other chemicals that were onboard the railcars through controlled burning. Holes were blown into five cars before the potentially explosive gas was burned in a ditch.
Federal agencies responded to the disaster, sending teams from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist with testing and cleanup.
