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    Weeks after rail disaster, Biden still has no plans to visit East Palestine

    by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2023 3 minutes
    Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4, 2023.

    WASHINGTON — Republicans are continuing to criticize President Joe Biden for not visiting East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic, cancer-causing chemicals derailed Feb. 3.

    Biden has yet to make a trip to the area, sending Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and federal officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency to the disaster site in his stead.

    Biden’s visit to Ukraine last week was “the biggest slap in the face,” East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway, a Republican, told Fox News.

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