Posted on 02/15/2023 1:35:00 PM PST by Carriage Hill
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shifted part of the blame for the recent derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio on the Trump administration reversing a little-known safety rule. Buttigieg noted Tuesday evening that his agency had taken a series of steps to improve rail safety through "historic investments," but said it was constrained by the Trump administration action. In 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a rule proposed three years earlier requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to utilize electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, saying the technology's benefits were inconclusive.
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Sure thing, Buttboy.
Searching for Babylon Bee
No. It’s Fox.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Buttjuice further commented that this accident would have never happened had Trump simply been less orange and bad
Biden had two years with a democrat majority in the senate and the house and did nothing. This is on Biden’s head, not Trump’s. And if Mayor Buttplug actually did his job, he would have identified that issue on day 1 and opened his yap. Instead he took a few months off to play mommy and go on vacation.
Most incompetent administration ever.
Of course the commie fag found a way to blame trump
Don’t tell me Pete reads FR. Some joker posted this yesterday that Trump removed the restrictions. Which had nothing to do with this train wreck, but Pete fell for it.
Being a democRAT means NEVER having to take responsibility for anything.
If he knew about it, they could have changed it.
He didn’t know, too busy chest feeding.
So did Pete, and apparently he didn't see a problem.
Booty judge is his name
Hershey highway is his game
5.56mm
Electronically controlled brakes would not have prevented this. But he hasn’t the smarts to know anything except how to shift the blame. (The highest and best skill a bureaucrat can possess.)
That was a DeSantis tout.
Huh - don’t we have a Secretary of Transportation who’s supposed to be up on this area? Wonder what he’s been doing the past couple of years.
If it is so obvious that the Trump Administration did something bad by reversing that rule on train safety, then why didn’t the Biden Administration reinstate that rule?
Right wingers aren’t the ones regulating everything.
How far and how long did the interns have to scrape through docs to come up with THAT one?
It’s 2023 Pete. You had 2 years to undo the “constraint”.
If you didn’t, that’s on you.
There have been over a dozen train derailments in The U.S. in the last six weeks alone. Something bad is going on. Nothing like this happened under President Trump.
This thing didn’t even happen until it was Trump’s fault.
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