The White House claimed on Wednesday that President Joe Biden still plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio, five months after the Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster.

But White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to share a date when a reporter raised a question about a visit, noting that Biden has “done a lot of travel in recent weeks and months” to other places.

“So, I’m just going to repeat what the president said,” Jean-Pierre said. “He will travel to the area, to East Palestine. Just don’t have anything to share on travel or upcoming dates that he’ll be there. But the president said it, he’s going to go. So he will go. Once we have a date, we’ll certainly share that.”

“Why has the president not made the visit [to East Palestine] and at this point, is he just not going to?”

Karine Jean-Pierre: “He will travel…Just don’t have anything to share on travel” pic.twitter.com/YkYvB59GyL

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A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed on February 3 while passing through the small town of East Palestine, a village near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania. Locals soon began to raise concerns about health and environmental threats posed by a controlled burn of toxic chemicals at the crash site meant to deter a large explosion.

Weeks later, East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway described Biden visiting Ukraine instead of his community as “the biggest slap in the face that tells you right now he doesn’t care about us.” After Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to the derailment area in late February — one day behind former President Donald Trump paying a visit to East Palestine — Biden said in early March that “at some point” he would make the trip to the town.

Jean-Pierre also said on Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is reviewing Ohio Governor Mike DeWine‘s request for a major disaster declaration and she stressed that Norfolk Southern was ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to pay for cleanup costs.

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“The EPA is making them pay so that the taxpayers don’t have to pay for their mess,” Jean-Pierre said. “And so we’ve been very clear about that. The EPA has been on top of that. And so when it comes to Norfolk Southern, they have met their terms of the order to date and there are stiff penalties if they do not.”

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down multiple questions during Wednesday’s press briefing related to the cocaine that was found inside the White House at the start of the week.

Jean-Pierre refused to disclose where in the West Wing the cocaine was found or what entrance was closest to where the cocaine was found.

She said that the Secret Service needs “space” to be able to conduct its investigation into how the illicit drug made its way into the White House.

“As you know, the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend, as you all reported on this and as you also know that they left on Friday and returned just yesterday,” she said. “Where this was discovered is a heavily-traveled area where many White House – West Wing, I should be even more specific, West Wing visitors come through this particular area, I just don’t have anything more to share.”

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked Jean-Pierre: “How determined is the president to get to the bottom of who brought illegal drugs to the White House?”

“The Secret Service is getting to the bottom of it and that’s what matters, and it’s under their purview,” the press secretary responded.

“But the question was how determined is the president,” Heinrich pushed back.

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“The president thinks it’s very important to get to the bottom of this,” Jean-Pierre replied. “That’s why the Secret Service, which is under their purview, is looking into this. And they’re going to look into what happened this weekend. So the president thinks this is incredibly important to get to the bottom of this.”

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