This drone shot shows part of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed in eastern Palestine earlier this month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
President Joe Biden’s policy of “putting Americans on the back burner” is perfectly demonstrated in the chemical spill in Ohio.
Residents of a small town in eastern Palestine, Ohio, fear for their lives, forced to flee their homes, with burning eyes, skin mottled with rashes and questionable drinking water. two weeks. He contrasts the immediate assistance FEMA provides when a bus of illegal immigrants rolls into Washington, DC, or New York.
To help illegal immigrants, staff from FEMA-funded charities literally met them on buses and distributed food, hotel rooms, rental assistance, lawyers, medical care, and just what the victims of Eastern Palestine needed. start. And the blanket appropriations bill Biden signed into his December bill gave FEMA her astounding $800 million to pay for what migrants would need as they arrived in U.S. cities across the southern border. is explicitly given funding for
Yet Biden is giving the people of this Ohio town — a working-class, tax-paying citizen who is 98% white — the cold shoulder.
Fourteen days after the Norfolk Southern Railroad derailed in this small Ohio town on Feb. 17 and spewing burning vinyl chloride into the air and water, the White House tried to explain why FEMA was absent. “FEMA is on the front lines when there is a hurricane or tornado. This situation is different.”
Under the Stafford Act of 1988, FEMA is empowered to respond not only to natural disasters, but man-made disasters such as fires and explosions. FEMA was meant to help people like Audrey DeSanzo and her two school-age children in Eastern Palestine.
After the February 3 train crash, Gov. Mike DeWine told families to evacuate immediately or face “grave mortality.”
DeSanzos fled to a relative’s empty apartment in Pennsylvania. On February 9, authorities gave residents permission to return, but DeSanzo said her children soon developed sore throats and coughs. He advised me to call poison control.
DeSanzo wants to leave Eastern Palestine, but he only makes $14 an hour. “Where should I go?” she asked. FEMA pays for migrants to stay in hotels, but DeSanzos does not.
Norfolk Southern is sending $1,000 to each family. Medical expenses, housing, meals and lost wages during evacuation are not covered.
With a disaster declaration, these costs can be covered by FEMA. But the Biden administration withheld it.
The White House claimed it was “mobilizing a strong multi-agency effort” for Ohioans, including support from the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS says it will work with the Ohio Department of Health to open the clinic. A little too late.
Washington state, meanwhile, recently approved a waiver of its right to provide free health insurance to illegal immigrants for “fairness.”
People in East Palestine will say that burning PVC stifles them, but what’s worse is the stench of Biden’s contempt for ordinary Americans.
Betsy McCohy, former Lieutenant Governor of New York
