
How Trump’s order to have the military buy coal would actually work
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Trump's pledge for military to "buy a lot of coal" faces Pentagon procurement rules, funding limits, and grid constraints that complicate implementation.
But executive orders set policy direction — they do not automatically create new funding or rewrite electricity market rules. The order itself states that implementation must be consistent with applicable law and "subject to the availability of appropriations."
"Executive orders can’t drive appropriations," said Jerry McGinn, a former Pentagon official and now executive director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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