Posted on 02/01/2018 11:19:33 PM PST by blueplum
WASHINGTON — Hours after Wednesday's fatal train crash in rural Virginia, the Trump administration sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer arguing that Democratic opposition to the man nominated to be the Federal Railway Administration's top railroad safety regulator was posing a threat to the public. "While the circumstances of that crash are being reviewed by the Federal Railroad Administration, it is clear that the agency needs to have its chief rail safety official in place," U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Rosen said in the letter.{snip}
...A massive infrastructure bill is Trump's next big legislative goal, and some Democrats say the president wants to include the Gateway project as a bargaining chip to pressure Schumer to support a bill that Democrats have been critical of.
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The current FTA has found no evidence such a deal was finalized.
Another example of Dems obstructing appointments in order to get porkbarrel consideration they feel they are magically owed.
An infrastructure Bill isn’t going to stop them from trying to assassinate Republicans.
Demodummies will grasp at ANYTHING to cast negativity toward Trump. During the highly successful STOU, Trump handed the demodummies their ass and the truth hurt. Now they, Pelosi/Schumer and the rest of that rabble, once again are grabbing and/or creating reasons to go after Trump in full force. Me thinks they have a very tough road ahead to regain any respect.
Lol.. really? After signing off on how many chuck n Nancy spending resolutions? Kabuki.
The Trump “federal unitized state” ideas need to be replaced. The locals knew the train crossing was not working right, and local complaints had been made. But the locals are not “in charge” and could not force the correction. The locals, not the feds, need to be IN CHARGE of things like a railroad crossing and be able to force a train system operator to fix the crossing or see local police block trains from making that crossing; unless agreement to fix it is sealed and that work is in progress.
There should be no need for a huge federal bureaucracy needed to get a non-working railroad crossing fixed. It was not fixed because passing the decision making power to giant federal authorities amounts to a giant passing of the buck. The local authorities can rightly say they are not sitting on their hands - they don’t have the authority, and often the state officials are in no better position, with everyone waiting for a “federal” assessment of the situation. When you lose the power, you lose the control.
You actually believe the “faulty boom” bullcrap?
If the booms were an issue, they would have been DOWN, not up.
The “faulty boom” did that somehow stall a truck on rail tracks?
The coverup story on this is sooooo stupid that it makes a reasonable person even more suspicious of the incident.
I guess we won’t be getting statements from the injured in the truck as to what happened.
The conspiracy theories on the incident are what is really stupid.
Schumer’s logic - The reason we must have illegal aliens is because Americans won’t vote for us.
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