Conservative commentator Benny Johnson visited East Palestine, Ohio, and gave $20,000 to residents who live closest to the environmental disaster that has unfolded in the past two weeks after a train that contained deadly chemicals derailed.

“Welcome to East Palestine, Ohio. It’s a sweet, patriotic community, 5,000 people live here. They have homes here. Their children go to school here. There’s playgrounds, businesses, restaurants, and there’s also train tracks that run through the center of town. And on that train track there was a massive derailment a couple of days ago,” Johnson said,

“Chemicals spilled into the air and into the water and into the soil. These people have to live with that now forever. Worse yet, the government came along and then lit it all on fire, sending a black, toxic plume of smoke directly into the atmosphere, and then they told everyone to go back into their homes, everything’s safe. But there’s been no reassurances,” Johnson continued.

Norfolk Southern has given residents just $5 in repairs, which Johnson says is wrong.

“We think that’s wrong, and so we’re here today, we’ve identified the 20 homes closest to that toxic burn, and we’re gonna walk up to those homes and we’re gonna hand them $1,000. And we’re gonna say we’re sorry this happened to you, we don’t need the government to come in and save us or help us out, we the American people can help each other out,” Johnson said.

Johnson originally gave money to the five homes closest to the derailment, with those homes being able to see the derailment from their back yard.

A man who spoke to Johnson who goes by the name of Smiley said that the government is “hiding” what has taken place in the small town.