Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is being slammed on Twitter for punting the blame for the East Palestine train derailment to the previous administration.
to address the disaster at all, many thought Buttigieg's tweets were tone-deaf and too little too late."This is an absolutely insane thing to tweet," said Jack Kennedy of Barstool Sports.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha tweeted,"The Transportation Secretary appears to be tweeting his way through the East Palestine disaster ten days late instead of, you know... going there." Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg during his Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 21, 2021.
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