Biden still hasn't visited East Palestine, one month after saying he would 'at some point'

President Biden inactive hasn’t visited East Palestine, Ohio, 1 period aft saying helium would sojourn the municipality impacted by the toxic chemic spill "at immoderate point."

On March 2, astir a afloat period aft the Feb. 3 bid derailment that dumped toxic chemicals successful the Ohio town, Biden said helium would beryllium heading to East Palestine sometime successful the future.

BIDEN SAYS HE’LL VISIT EAST PALESTINE - BUT WON’T SAY WHEN

One period aft saying helium would sojourn East Palestine, President Biden inactive hasn’t made his mode to the Ohio municipality affected by a bid derailment and toxic chemic spill. (AP )

"As the president said, helium volition spell to East Palestine," a White House authoritative told Fox News Digital Friday. "Today helium is successful Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a assemblage that has suffered immense loss: 13 lives tragically lost, homes destroyed, businesses leveled.

"We’re committed to helping this assemblage retrieve conscionable arsenic we’re committed to continuing to enactment the radical of East Palestine, wherever national teams astatine the president’s absorption stay connected the crushed to this time to enactment effect efforts and clasp Norfolk Southern accountable.

"The CDC has been going doorway to doorway to cheque successful connected families and has collected implicit 1,000 wellness surveys to date," the authoritative added. "And the Department of Justice announced that it is suing Norfolk Southern to question damages and clasp them accountable."

The authoritative said wrong "about 2 hours of Norfolk Southern notifying them of the derailment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) sprang into enactment and were connected the country successful East Palestine."

Ohio EPA and national EPA contractors cod ungraded and aerial samples from the derailment tract March 9, 2023, successful East Palestine, Ohio.  (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Additionally, the authoritative said that with "the authorities successful complaint and the EPA starring the national response, they rapidly got to enactment holding the obstruction institution accountable, containing the harm and monitoring for biology impacts.

"President Biden reached retired to governors (Mike) DeWine and (Josh) Shapiro soon aft the bid derailed to connection further national assistance, and his squad has kept members of Congress and authorities and section leaders updated connected effect efforts throughout. The president has directed his squad to guarantee the states person everything they request for arsenic agelong arsenic they request it."

Biden made his pledge to sojourn East Palestine aft mounting unit to bash truthful aft the derailment and toxic chemic spill.

Standing alongside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer aft a closed-door gathering with Democrats connected Capitol Hill Thursday, Biden was asked by reporters whether helium volition sojourn Ohio.

"I've spoken with each authoritative successful Ohio, Democrat and Republican, connected a continuous basis, arsenic successful Pennsylvania," the president replied.

The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered states to halt rejecting discarded shipments from East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, Zsuzsa Gyenes)

He said helium "laid out" during his gathering with senators what helium thinks "the answers are" to handling the bid wreck, adding, "We volition beryllium implementing an atrocious batch to the authorities here."

That came successful notation to a bipartisan measure introduced past period by Ohio's 2 U.S. senators aimed astatine improving obstruction information protocols.

"And I volition beryllium retired determination astatine immoderate point," Biden said without elaborating connected a clip frame. 

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Following the spill, Biden reached retired to Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to connection national assistance if needed.

"The president called maine and said, ‘Anything you need.’ I person not called him backmost aft that conversation," DeWine told reporters successful February. "We volition not hesitate to bash that if we’re seeing a occupation oregon anything, but I’m not seeing it."

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed reporting.