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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals is raising health and environmental concerns. He’s the second high-profile political visitor to make the trek to the village near the Pennsylvania border this week.
Former President Donald Trump arrived Wednesday and told residents that the federal government has betrayed them. That’s a message that resonates in rural Ohio, a state that Trump won in both 2016 and 2020.