Helping East Palestine was a signature promise for Trump. Recovery will take years
This feels like a quiet policy shift.
President Donald Trump has taken significant steps toward helping the people of East Palestine, Ohio, rebuild their lives following the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment, but senior administration officials concede that it will likely be years before the community can fully recover.
Trump leaned into the derailment on the 2024 campaign trail, claiming that the village’s cries for help were met by “indifference and betrayal” by then-President Joe Biden. Trump visited East Palestine just days after the derailment occurred, weeks before Biden himself, while Vice President JD Vance’s first trip of 2025 was to East Palestine to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. There, he promised locals that the administration would “make sure” to “get this right.”
The White House declined to say how, or if, the president plans to commemorate the three-year anniversary on Tuesday, but pointed to million-dollar initiatives carried out by the Departments of Transportation, Health and Human Services, and Environmental Protection Agency as evidence that Trump is making good on his campaign promises to the village.
“From day one, President Trump and Vice President Vance have used every lever of executive power to ensure the people of East Palestine receive the support they deserve,” a White House spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “We are in this for the long haul.”
Vance told the Washington Examiner during a January interview that he believes, “unfortunately,” that the Norfolk Southern derailment “will have changed East Palestine forever.”
Still, the Ohio native voiced pride at how a National Institutes of Health study launched in June of last year by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is addressing East Palestinians’ questions about the long-term health impacts regarding toxic chemical exposure.
The vice president claimed that, in conversations he’s had with residents, “that’s what they’re most worried about.” The study, funded to the tune of $10 million across five years, has yet to produce any significant findings, but Vance hopes that it will eventually provide peace of mind or, in the worst-case scenario, treatment recommendations.
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“It’s not like they’re going to drink the drinking water and drop dead,” he told the Washington Examiner. “It’s that their grandkid, over 10 to 12 years, is going to experience some problem related to low-level toxic …
This feels like a quiet policy shift.
President Donald Trump has taken significant steps toward helping the people of East Palestine, Ohio, rebuild their lives following the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment, but senior administration officials concede that it will likely be years before the community can fully recover.
Trump leaned into the derailment on the 2024 campaign trail, claiming that the village’s cries for help were met by “indifference and betrayal” by then-President Joe Biden. Trump visited East Palestine just days after the derailment occurred, weeks before Biden himself, while Vice President JD Vance’s first trip of 2025 was to East Palestine to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. There, he promised locals that the administration would “make sure” to “get this right.”
The White House declined to say how, or if, the president plans to commemorate the three-year anniversary on Tuesday, but pointed to million-dollar initiatives carried out by the Departments of Transportation, Health and Human Services, and Environmental Protection Agency as evidence that Trump is making good on his campaign promises to the village.
“From day one, President Trump and Vice President Vance have used every lever of executive power to ensure the people of East Palestine receive the support they deserve,” a White House spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “We are in this for the long haul.”
Vance told the Washington Examiner during a January interview that he believes, “unfortunately,” that the Norfolk Southern derailment “will have changed East Palestine forever.”
Still, the Ohio native voiced pride at how a National Institutes of Health study launched in June of last year by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is addressing East Palestinians’ questions about the long-term health impacts regarding toxic chemical exposure.
The vice president claimed that, in conversations he’s had with residents, “that’s what they’re most worried about.” The study, funded to the tune of $10 million across five years, has yet to produce any significant findings, but Vance hopes that it will eventually provide peace of mind or, in the worst-case scenario, treatment recommendations.
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“It’s not like they’re going to drink the drinking water and drop dead,” he told the Washington Examiner. “It’s that their grandkid, over 10 to 12 years, is going to experience some problem related to low-level toxic …
Helping East Palestine was a signature promise for Trump. Recovery will take years
This feels like a quiet policy shift.
President Donald Trump has taken significant steps toward helping the people of East Palestine, Ohio, rebuild their lives following the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment, but senior administration officials concede that it will likely be years before the community can fully recover.
Trump leaned into the derailment on the 2024 campaign trail, claiming that the village’s cries for help were met by “indifference and betrayal” by then-President Joe Biden. Trump visited East Palestine just days after the derailment occurred, weeks before Biden himself, while Vice President JD Vance’s first trip of 2025 was to East Palestine to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. There, he promised locals that the administration would “make sure” to “get this right.”
The White House declined to say how, or if, the president plans to commemorate the three-year anniversary on Tuesday, but pointed to million-dollar initiatives carried out by the Departments of Transportation, Health and Human Services, and Environmental Protection Agency as evidence that Trump is making good on his campaign promises to the village.
“From day one, President Trump and Vice President Vance have used every lever of executive power to ensure the people of East Palestine receive the support they deserve,” a White House spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “We are in this for the long haul.”
Vance told the Washington Examiner during a January interview that he believes, “unfortunately,” that the Norfolk Southern derailment “will have changed East Palestine forever.”
Still, the Ohio native voiced pride at how a National Institutes of Health study launched in June of last year by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is addressing East Palestinians’ questions about the long-term health impacts regarding toxic chemical exposure.
The vice president claimed that, in conversations he’s had with residents, “that’s what they’re most worried about.” The study, funded to the tune of $10 million across five years, has yet to produce any significant findings, but Vance hopes that it will eventually provide peace of mind or, in the worst-case scenario, treatment recommendations.
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“It’s not like they’re going to drink the drinking water and drop dead,” he told the Washington Examiner. “It’s that their grandkid, over 10 to 12 years, is going to experience some problem related to low-level toxic …
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