President Biden said he hasn’t had the time to visit a small Ohio town that was devastated by a train derailment months ago, despite recently embarking on a long family getaway in Nevada and taking multiple trips to Delaware just in the last month.
Biden was giving a press conference in Live Oak, Florida on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia when he was asked why he hadn’t yet visited East Palestine since the Feb. 3 derailment that spewed pollutants and contaminated local water.
“I haven’t had the occasion to go to East Palestine,” the president responded. “There’s a lot going on here, and I just haven’t been able to break.”
US President Joe Biden waves as he rides his bicycle through Gordons Pond in Cape Henlopen State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on August 13, 2023. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
“I was thinking that I would go to East…