NTSB Pleads to Transportation Sec Pete Buttigieg – Stop the Misinformation

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The thread doesn't mention Buttigieg. If you want to write an op-ed saying that he's doing a terrible job and contradicting his own experts, have at it, but as submitted this is misrepresentation.

No it's not misrepresentation.

Here's the tweet from Buttigieg claiming that this is trump admin fault. Which is what Jennifer Homendy is calling out.

"then a plea to those spreading misinformation."

“We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015),” Buttigieg wrote.

https://twitter.com/SecretaryPete/status/1625628605861462016

Again, the thread you linked doesn't mention Buttigieg. I'm not defending him, I encouraged you to draw the inference yourself. I even agree with your inference, but it doesn't match the claim in the headline.

That tweet neither blames the Trump admin or suggests that the ECP rules would have prevented the accident, so I find it hard to believe that Jennifer Homendy is tweeting in reaction to it.

The tweet points out that the transportation department has been hampered by congressional action and points to the ECP rule as one which had to be withdrawn because of congressional action. He is putting the blame for this on Congress and not the Trump administration. He also nowhere implies that the ECP rule would have prevented the accident in question.

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