<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> pressed Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Buttigieg</a> about the Biden administration&#8217;s response to the Norfolk Southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio-train-disaster">train derailment</a> nearly a year after the toxic disaster in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/east-palestine">East Palestine</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a>.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/01/22/the-lead-pete-buttigieg-east-palestine-jake-tapper-live.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange that aired</a> on Monday, Tapper asked Buttigieg why calls for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-governor-asks-biden-for-east-palestine-disaster-declaration-150-days-after-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major disaster declaration</a> — including from Ohio Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-dewine">Mike DeWine</a> and <a href="https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sherrod-brown-biden-administration-declare-east-palestine-derailment-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)</a> — that could unlock additional resources such as health screenings to residents are not being heeded by the federal government.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Biden administration refuses to do that,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;They say a disaster declaration does not apply because it&#8217;s not a natural disaster. They say Norfolk Southern is responsible. So is that disaster declaration still just off the table for these residents who are clearly suffering?&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">CNN: Why won&#39;t Biden approve the Ohio governor&#39;s disaster declaration for East Palestine, Ohio?</p>
<p>PETE BUTTIGIEG: &quot;I don&#39;t know all the legalities of the emergency management process&quot; <a href="https://t.co/5Dj6m6Em0q">pic.twitter.com/5Dj6m6Em0q</a></p>
<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1749548434947010788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Buttigieg replied, &#8220;Look, leaving aside — I don&#8217;t know all the legalities of the emergency management process, I do know what we can do as a department to make sure that railroads are safer. We&#8217;ve been taking action on everything from focused inspection of railroads, to making sure that there&#8217;s better hazardous material-related regulations, to just investing in better railroad infrastructure.&#8221;</p>
<p>Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/09/20/executive-order-on-ensuring-the-people-of-east-palestine-are-protected-now-and-in-the-future/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> an executive order in September instructing FEMA to designate a federal disaster recovery coordinator to &#8220;oversee long-term recovery efforts in the affected communities and conduct a comprehensive assessment of unmet needs of the affected communities in recovering from the derailment beyond the cleanup work directed by EPA.&#8221; A coordinator, Jim McPherson, was <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/special-reports/train-derailment/fema-appoints-coordinator-recovery-efforts-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment/95-1019191e-d9ce-463f-8373-0eec065caf91" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> later that month. But no <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/special-reports/train-derailment/biden-norfolk-southern-accountable-ohio-derailment/95-46dc5fca-9626-4c64-94b5-1c772a383854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disaster declaration</a>.</p>
<p>Tapper also confronted Buttigieg on why Biden has not visited East Palestine since the derailment in early February of 2023 — a question which has been <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1748089612382134759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed to the White House many times</a> over the past year, often answered by statements about how the president was planning to go at some point but did not get around to scheduling it.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">JAKE TAPPER: &quot;[Biden] still has not visited East Palestine, Ohio. I don&#39;t know why that is — that doesn&#39;t seem to make much sense to me &#8230; why wouldn&#39;t he just go to East Palestine?&quot;</p>
<p>BUTTIGIEG: &quot;I don&#39;t have any updates&quot; <a href="https://t.co/s7OWEghsI7">pic.twitter.com/s7OWEghsI7</a></p>
<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1749548939781734701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Biden &#8220;still has not visited East Palestine, Ohio. I don&#8217;t know why that is — that doesn&#8217;t seem to make much sense to me,&#8221; the CNN anchor said. Tapper asked why Biden would not go to East Palestine and &#8220;use the bully pulpit&#8221; to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-improve-rail-safety-after-ohio-train-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan legislation</a> from Brown and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to increase railroad safety regulations passed through Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any updates on the scheduling front for the White House but what I can tell you is it shouldn&#8217;t take anything more than we&#8217;ve already seen happen for Congress to act,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we have to persuade anybody to do something that members in both parties claim to care about, which is to make our railroads safer.&#8221;</p>

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