President Trump campaigned on the (misguided) promise that he would reinvigorate the coal industry, and as president he has traveled often for rallies in the coal-mining districts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, all states he won in 2016 and that could be key to his reelection bid. Yet Trump has done virtually nothing to address the fiscal cliff the trust fund faces. Neither, for that matter, has Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), whose own constituents include thousands of people who have relied on the coal industry for their livelihoods.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times