Ohio's new Senator JD Vance teamed up with Florida Senator Marco Rubio to send a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. DeWine also criticized the fact that the train was not categorized as a high hazardous material train, so the railroad was not required to notify anyone in Ohio that it was traveling through the state. The U.S. Army maintains that progressive initiatives are not to blame for the branch coming up tens of thousands of enlistees short of their recruitment goals last year.