Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon blasted the reaction of President Joe Biden's administration to the Ohio train derailment as "lamentable."

"They're certainly making light of it," Gurdon told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria on Friday. "Their performance has been lamentable since Feb. 3, which is nearly two weeks ago."

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The derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, saw a train carrying 20 cars of hazardous materials have 11 derail, causing environmental and safety concerns to the surrounding area.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was AWOL as wildlife in the area died and conditions appeared to deteriorate, Gurdon said.

Buttigieg was "elsewhere in the country, talking about racial equity on construction sites. It took him 10 or 11 days before he even commented on this," he said. "FEMA did not produce a list of the chemicals on the trains for nine days. Michael Regan, the head of the EPA, did not visit for going on two weeks."

Officials such as Buttigieg clearly do not want to be associated with this crisis, and they do not want to take any accountability, according to Gurdon.

"Just as Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris don't want to go to the southern border, Pete Buttigieg and the EPA don't want to go to the disaster site in Ohio."

Gurdon also addressed the recent string of derailments after roughly $66 billion was included for rail funding in the most recent infrastructure bill.

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"If you look at the infrastructure bill, the priorities of this administration are completely wrong. There was like $175 billion for subsidizing electric cars. If you look into the infrastructure bill, it absolutely reflected the administration's obsessions with two things. One was the racial justice things, so that lots of money and infrastructure went to various, sort of bogus racial justice things, and a lot went to electricity generation through solar and wind and that sort of thing."