‘He really tied our hands’: Rep. Mike Rulli says the federal government failed East Palestine

Representative Mike Rulli (R-OH) condemns the Biden-Harris administration’s disaster response to East Palestine following the 2023 toxic train derailment. “The federal government failed miserably. Everything from Pete Buttigieg—I was one of the first to ask him to resign—and it just got worse from there. FEMA was non-existent. The president never declared it a disaster area. He really tied our hands, and it keeps getting worse,” he says.