"Now show us why Trump changed it"
Too easy.
It was an Obama initiative so Trump couldn't help himself.
"Trump and his administration bragged that they were doing away with regulations to help the free markets, which led to them overturning more than 100 environmental rules."
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/trump-gutted-train-regulations
"CNN's Bill Weir describes how the Trump administration gutted train regulations before the East Palestine disaster
“When President Obama tried to make [new brakes] mandatory after a bunch of derailments in 2014 ... the industry, the railroads, the chemical companies, the lobbies fought it hard. They gutted it.”
"But then when President Obama tried to make them mandatory after a bunch of derailments in 2014 – said let's just put them on the cars that have explosive carcinogens, for example – the industry, the railroads, the chemical companies, the lobbies fought it hard. They gutted it.
The final version was that longer high-hazard flammable trains would need brakes by 2023, ironically. But in 2018, the Trump administration, Elaine Chao was the transportation secretary, rolled it back entirely."
https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-bill-weir-describes-how-trump-administration-gutted-train-regulations-east-palestine
I'm compelled to ask if you have any factual support for this statement:
"if the derailment was due to sabotage or human intent"
"Now show us why Trump changed it"Too easy.It was an Obama...
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