Buttigieg said you 'can feel a sense of fatigue' within the East Palestine community 'with all of the kind of politics swirling around' .
He said:"What I saw in the residents of East Palestine. People whose lives have been upended through no fault of their own, who have just shown remarkable resilience, and are asking to make sure that they will be taken care of.
A split image of Pete Buttigieg and Donald Trump. Buttigieg appeared to hit out at former president Donald Trump.He continued:"It's continuing to know that their air, water, and soil is going to be safe, that their homes are going to be safe. Train derailments are not rare in the U.S. with a total of 54,538 such incidents being recorded in the country between 1990 and 2021, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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