The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is launching a probe into Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's response to the train derailment that caused a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio amid bipartisan criticism over the federal...
A letter to Mr. Buttigieg on Friday raised concerns over the Department of Transportation’s “slow pace” in responding to the derailment and accused the department’s leadership of “apathy in the face of this emergency.”
Mr. Buttigieg traveled to the site of the crash on Thursday after weeks of criticism from both parties for not going sooner. The DOT declined to comment on the letter, stating that the department would respond directly to the lawmakers. “There’s been a lot of bad-faith attacks on Secretary Buttigieg,” she said. “If you remember Elaine Chao, she was the head of the Department of Transportation and when there [were] these types of chemical spills, nobody was calling for her to be fired.”
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