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Vice President J.D. Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA inspector general for an independent investigation into the Biden administration’s East Palestine response, turning a disaster response into a new round of partisan grievance theater.
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Vice President J.D. Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA inspector general for an independent investigation into the Biden administration’s East Palestine response, turning a disaster response into a new round of partisan grievance theater.
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