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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,...

Wednesday’s collision of a garbage truck with an Amtrak train carrying 200 or more Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia is raising questions about whether sufficient thought was given to security considerations.The collision, which killed the truck driver and caused a number of minor injuries to people on the train, “should trigger a review of measures designed to protect government officials from attack and similar tragic accidents,” Sebastian Gorka, former strategist to President Donald Trump and author of The New York Times’ bestseller “Defeating Jihad,” told LifeZette on Thursday. Gorka said terrorists specifically look for soft...

@BillKirstol Once we're sure everone involved is ok, assuming they are, I hereby give permission to Twitter to indulge in all manner of GOP train wreck jokes. I do think that by having the train hit...yes, a garbage truck...the scriptwriters of "2018" jumped the shark. 1/31/18, 11:07 AM