Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy rates
The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills.
They say the moves are evidence that the president aims to serve fossil-fuel companies like those which donated record sums to his
presidential campaign
, rather than the working-class Americans to whom he pledged to lower energy bills and other costs.

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