“Obama imposed stricter rules on trains carrying toxins. Trump killed them.”
What PolitiFact found
The Obama administration adopted a rule requiring high-hazard cargo trains to have electronic brakes by 2023. Trump later repealed that rule. However, this rule would not have applied to the train that derailed in Ohio.
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In short
Occupy Democrats (a liberal advocacy group) made this claim around 15 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 February 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Occupy Democrats has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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