President Biden avoided investigating the railroad derailment and toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, again, choosing to travel to Baltimore, Maryland, for the Democratic House recall instead.
On Wednesday, the president walked not too far down the road from Washington, DC, to Charm City to deliver a speech to the office. House assembled Democrats on the descent.
Biden’s trip to Baltimore comes as East Palestine, Ohio, is still reeling from the Norfolk Southern train and toxic chemical spill last month, which saw a controlled burn of the released vinyl chloride.
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On Wednesday, President Biden walked not too far down the road from Washington, DC, to Charm City to deliver a speech to the assembled House Democrats on the run. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Fox News Digital asked the White House if Biden planned to travel to East Palestine to investigate the train derailment and toxic chemical spill, and, if so, when the president would go to Ohio .
The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Biden will reportedly “talk about how to continue bringing jobs back to America at a historic rate, continue to reduce costs like prescription drugs and energy, and further cut the deficit with to make wealthy special interests pay their fair share,” according to a White House official speaking to Punchbowl News.
“He will repeat his promise to release his budget to the American public, and call on Republicans to do the same,” the official said. “He will also show that congressional Republicans are now threatening trigger a catastrophic situation if they can’t take away health coverage from millions of families.”
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An undated aerial view of the railroad in East Palestine, Ohio. (NTSB)
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg traveled to East Palestine last week to investigate the toxic chemical spill after weeks of staying away.
Representative Michael Waltz, R-Fla., along with several of his fellow Republicans in the House, introduced a resolution on Tuesday criticizing Buttigieg and calling for his resignation from his Cabinet post.
The resolution, obtained by Fox News Digital, accuses Buttigieg of failing to “mitigate or respond effectively to multiple national crises” and that his “inability to endanger the safety and prosperity of the American people.”
The lawmakers raised several controversies in Buttigieg’s career as transportation secretary, such as the secretary’s “absence during a historic supply chain crisis when US ports faced a record number of lost ships from the coasts of the United States,” as well as the “more than 15,000 flights” were grounded under his watch in “the worst and costliest airline operational disruption in United States aviation history.”
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Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., a freshman Republican responsible for Waltz’s resolution, called for the secretary’s resignation in an opinion piece and blasted Buttigieg’s response to the crisis in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Collins said, “They should have shown up immediately” and “anytime we have a problem, in terms of small businesses, you can get right to the scene and see exactly what’s going on, so you can assess the problem” and “find out what the solution is.”
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg traveled to East Palestine last week to investigate the toxic chemical spill after weeks of staying away. Representative Michael Waltz, along with several House Republicans, introduced a resolution this week criticizing Buttigieg and calling for his resignation. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Yes, they put people up there, but … this thing was a disaster and something like that takes the head of the department to show up,” Collins said.
“And, you know, he was just bent on not going,” the correspondent continued. “And there are reasons why he did that.”
“That’s just another example, in my opinion, another clear example of this group and the fact that they’ve set their sights on things other than trying to fix the infrastructure of this country development,” Collins said. “And that’s the culture of awakening that this man is promoting.”
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Collins said, whether it’s a train derailment, “planes almost landing on top of each other,” or “someone deleting a file that shuts down an entire business, there’s something else that “go beyond what you see,” calling them “administrative products that push culture awake.”
The Georgia Republican also said he “doesn’t think anything is off the table” when it comes to removing Buttigieg, unless he resigns.
