Biden praised federal cleanup efforts and urged Congress to strengthen rail safety laws, but did not explain why it took more than a year for him to visit the community.
President Joe Biden is praising what he says were “Herculean efforts” to rebuild at the site of last February s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Biden is visiting Friday, more than a year after a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed causing a deadly explosive fire. He blames what happened on the railroad company s greed. Residents still upset that Biden didn t visit sooner shouted profanity as the president s motorcade drove by. Biden has faced criticism that he has ignored the victims of the derailment. Many of them still worry about their health. The White House says Biden wanted to visit when the time was right. He was invited by the mayor.
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Just over a year after a fiery derailment shocked East Palestine, Ohio and the surrounding area, President Joe Biden visited the area for the first time Friday. He received a mostly hostile reaction from the predominantly anti-Biden crowd. Some people in the small town near the Pennsylvania border expressed skepticism