Republicans are calling for the Biden administration to be more involved in the aftermath of a train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.
An Ohio community reeling from the toxic train disaster threatening their health now finds itself at the center of a political battle intensifying this week with President Joe Biden traveling overseas.
"This was an area of the state of Ohio that voted massively for President Trump, not a community that they necessarily care about," Riley Moore, Republican congressional candidate for West Virginia, said on"Fox and Friends." "The federal government will be here for as long as it takes," said Michael S. Regan, EPA administrator."The president has called the governor and offered the federal assistance that he needs, and I trust that the governor will accept that offer. And we will be here as long as it takes."
"Someone who's running for office tends to do things to help their political prospects," Weaver said."I think we can guess that's what former President Trump is doing, feels like more of a distraction to me than anything else."
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