AtlanticMachine,
If you step away from Fox ‘News’ long enough, you might find out that there’s a big difference between popular and factual.

Good luck. : )
Trump and his administration do indeed deserve blame and condemnation for reversing that regulation (and a lot of other vital safety and health related regulations) but the Biden administration has been in power for more than 2 years now. Why the delay in reinstating that and other vital and commonsense regulations that Trump foolishly and callously reversed?
Buttigieg claims his Department was constrained by whatever:Gunnar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:13 pmTrump and his administration do indeed deserve blame and condemnation for reversing that regulation (and a lot of other vital safety and health related regulations) but the Biden administration has been in power for more than 2 years now. Why the delay in reinstating that and other vital and commonsense regulations that Trump foolishly and callously reversed?
I guess it has something to do with a ‘discredited’ analysis that he didn’t feel needed to be reviewed or redone. Weak. And now Ohioans are paying the price for Trump’s venality combined with Pete’s … milqutoastiness?We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015)
One of the first segments I saw on this matter a week ago had an expert talking about how when something like this happens it is first the local state governments that address it. The Feds don't just jump into, there is apparently a legal process in which they get involved but it happens only when the state requests that they do. I'm guessing that's what he was referring to about constraints.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 12:21 amButtigieg claims his Department was constrained by whatever:Gunnar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:13 pmTrump and his administration do indeed deserve blame and condemnation for reversing that regulation (and a lot of other vital safety and health related regulations) but the Biden administration has been in power for more than 2 years now. Why the delay in reinstating that and other vital and commonsense regulations that Trump foolishly and callously reversed?
I guess it has something to do with a ‘discredited’ analysis that he didn’t feel needed to be reviewed or redone. Weak. And now Ohioans are paying the price for Trump’s venality combined with Pete’s … milqutoastiness?We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015)
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