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The Biden administration is taking well-deserved criticism for neglecting the train derailment disaster in Ohio, but even as President Joe Biden seems to be ignoring it, former President Donald Trump is stepping up to help.
Biden has paid scant attention to the train derailment and its aftermath, preferring instead to fly to Ukraine, where he pledged hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to support their defense against Russian invaders.
Worse, the one U.S. official who is supposed to be dealing with the disaster, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, has earned criticism for his disinterest in the mounting disaster.
After a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3 and toxic chemicals started spilling from the wreckage, officials quickly began evacuating residents from the area.
But the Biden administration was extremely slow in responding to the disaster. Even as residents began reporting health consequences from the toxic chemical spill, and Sen. J.D. Vance posted a viral video showing the contamination of the water in a local creek, it was two weeks before the first high-ranking federal official visited the area.
Worse, Buttigieg — whose initial response was to wave off the incident, saying it „happens all the time“ — still hasn’t visited the scene of the derailment.
