Trump will visit East Palestine on Wednesday, confirming his trip Friday roughly one hour before GovMikeDeWine announced Biden would deploy FEMA resources there. The White House announced the same day that there are no plans for Biden to visit.
Trump claimed on social media that President Joe Biden and the Federal Emergency Management Agency would not be sending federal aid to East Palestine, but reversed course"as soon as I announced that I’m going." The initial report by Fox News claiming Trump would visit East Palestine was published at 6:12 p.m. EST on Friday, with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announcing roughly an hour later that FEMA would be deploying federal resources to East Palestine.
Trump's confirmation for his visit comes after the White House announced on Friday that there are no plans for Biden to visit the village, where a toxic train derailment occurred on Feb. 3. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that Biden's immediate schedule is currently packed with his trip to Poland to mark the beginning of the war in Ukraine one year ago.
Sen. J.D. Vance visited East Palestine earlier this week and challenged Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to drink the local tap water. In a video posted to social media, Vance visited a local East Palestine creek where he said there were"dead worms and dead fish" throughout the bed of water, calling it"disgusting" and encouraging viewers to"not forget" the residents of the village.
Visited a local creek in East Palestine today. These waterways are still very polluted. It’s time for Norfolk Southern to finish the cleanup. Check this video out: pic.twitter.com/4lsHBmrMJjThe Biden administration announced Friday that the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will deploy a team of medical personnel and toxicologists to East Palestine"to conduct public health testing and assessments" following the train derailment.
"We're gonna make them do it," DeWine said in an interview on Fox & Friends."The railroad created this problem, the people did not create this problem. They brought this into the community. It was their railroad that had this massive wreck that was traumatic for the people. We're going to hold their feet to the fire, we're going to stay on them, they are going to do it.
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