Sen. Ted Cruz grilled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for his failure in responding to Ohio’s train derailment.

GALLAGHER: Ted Cruz yesterday. Common sense perspective. He is on a podcast with Ben Ferguson. Listen to this.

CRUZ: Look, it is ridiculous that Joe Biden has not been to East Palestine yet. You literally have an American city with a major derailment that was on fire, where the water is being poisoned, where the air is being poisoned, where it’s ongoing for multiple days, and this administration does not give a damn. Why? Because that part of the state voted 70% for Donald Trump. And it’s clear their attitude. Look, it’s all politics all the time. It’s all communications and PR all the time. And so going there is a bad message. And it really is striking. So, Donald Trump publicly said he was gonna go to East Palestine. And promptly the Biden Administration said, “Ooh, we’ll go too now yeah.” … And let me ask you a question. What in the hell does Pete Buttigieg have to do to get fired? Like in the history of this country, has there ever been a transportation secretary who has screwed more things up?

GALLAGHER: Honest question. Do you think Pete Buttigieg should be fired? Do you think Ted Cruz is being too hard on him? As for whether or not Biden should go to Ohio. He can fly all the way to Poland, but he can’t go to Ohio? As I’ve said all week, this is a perfect metaphor. This is globalism versus a domestic agenda. This is putting Ukraine’s interests ahead of the American people and it is really hard to dispute how this seems to be a matter of an administration ignoring a White rural Trump supporting community. What else could explain it? Yesterday Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden and any travel plans he might have to go to East Palestine.

REPORTER: Is the President gonna go to Ohio?

JEAN-PIERRE: I don’t have anything to read out or announce on a travel to Ohio.