WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump will make one of his first presidential trips to Ohio on Thursday, where he plans to sign legislation and deliver a speech.
The Vindicator of Youngstown reported that Trump will visit Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Trumbull County’s Vienna to sign a bill that reversed an Obama Administration “Stream Protection Rule” intended to keep coal mines from dumping waste into streams.
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That legislation was sponsored by Marietta GOP Rep. Bill Johnson, who described the rule as “the centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s War on Coal” and said it “would jeopardize thousands of coal jobs, and put a majority of our country’s coal reserves off limits.”
Trump visited Ohio more than a dozen times during his presidential campaign. The state’s voters backed him by a 51.7 percent margin, compared with a 43.6 percent tally for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump’s first stop on a December “Thank You tour” to thank his campaign supporters was in Ohio.
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On the campaign trail, Trump said Clinton and Obama were engaged in a “War on Coal” and that he would “save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.”
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