Pete Buttigieg ‘blames’ Trump for East Palestine catastrophe as Biden’s NTSB Trump holdover fails.
Pete Buttigieg articulated the truth about the East Palestine train derailment effectively that too many in the Biden administration have been ineffective in stating. Having a Trump NTSB holdover, Jennifer Homendy is not helpful.
Reporters confronted both Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, requesting a response to Trump blaming the Biden administration for the East Palestine train derailment life-endangering chemical pollution catastrophe. The response from each administration official was starkly different.
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