{"id":72235,"date":"2026-04-20T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/trump-signs-memos-to-boost-us-fossil-fuel-production-for-defense-readiness\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:20","slug":"trump-signs-memos-to-boost-us-fossil-fuel-production-for-defense-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/trump-signs-memos-to-boost-us-fossil-fuel-production-for-defense-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for \u2018defense readiness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President claims \u2018inadequate\u2019 supply presents security threat and orders expansion of oil, coal and gas production<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump on Monday released a series of memos that doubled down on his support of increased domestic fossil fuel production for purported \u201cdefense readiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s memos, which cited the president\u2019s 20 January 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-executive-order-energy-emergency\">executive order<\/a> declaring a national energy emergency, said US-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/04\/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-303-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-domestic-petroleum-production-refining-and-logistics-capacity\/https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/04\/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-303-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-domestic-petroleum-production-refining-and-logistics-capacity\/\">oil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/04\/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-303-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-coal-supply-chains-and-baseload-power-generation-capacity\/\">coal<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/04\/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-303-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-natural-gas-transmission-processing-storage-and-liquefied-natural-gas-capacity\/\">natural gas<\/a> production must expand \u201cto avert an industrial resource or critical technology item shortfall that would severely impair national defense capability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/trump-memos-domestic-fossil-fuels-defense\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President claims \u2018inadequate\u2019 supply presents security threat and orders expansion of oil, coal and gas production Donald Trump on Monday released a series of memos that doubled down on his support of increased domestic fossil fuel production for purported \u201cdefense readiness\u201d. Trump\u2019s memos, which cited the president\u2019s 20 January 2025 executive order declaring a national &#8230; <a title=\"Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for \u2018defense readiness\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/trump-signs-memos-to-boost-us-fossil-fuel-production-for-defense-readiness\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for \u2018defense readiness\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}