FOX Business host Dagen McDowell ripped Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for largely ignoring the Ohio train derailment, calling it 'disgraceful' amid lingering safety questions.
The panel discusses the fallout over the derailment and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's near silence on the disaster.that ultimately prompted officials to conduct a controlled burning of toxic, cancer-causing gases as new details emerge surrounding the incident.
"Democrats, liberals and the left have repeatedly denigrated people like those who are now living in this Chernobyl that is East Palestine, Ohio, calling them deplorables bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles, smelly Walmart shoppers," she continued. Buttigieg addressed the disaster twice via Twitter this week, but he has been called out for not doing more, even by members of his own party., was one of those critics demanding action from the Biden administration official.
Following the burn, black smoke tainted the community as toxins like vinyl chloride, hydrogen chloride and phosgene filled the air.
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