The “Buy American Act of 1933” already requires preference of American made products for all federal construction projects. All that’s needed is to clamp down on the policy of allowing the bureaucrat purchasing agents to “waive” the requirement.
I don’t want to give the Compost clicks and the excerpt doesn’t say why federal funds are going to pay coal miners’ retirement benefits ? Anyone care to enlighten me ? Not that the EPA and Obama are not responsible for the coal industry decline, but why would the US taxpayer be on the hook without some sort of lawsuit judgement showing the government responsible ?
The retirees depended on bankrupt coal companies and now medical insurers that are going belly up or pulling out of the area. The Dim solution is to have the Feds take over, of course.
All of this lays right at the feet of Obama and the Dim Congress that passed all those awful laws and regulations.
The Dims that threatened shutdown were almost all up for re-election in states Trump won. They somehow think unemployed miners will remember this and forget about why they’re unemployed in the first place.
I guess they thought this stunt would save them.