Do You Like Energy Subsidies?

I think most Republicans and conservatives were on the same page as me in opposing Democratic administrations that attempt to quash energy sources they dislike (fossil fuels) and subsidize those they like (wind and solar). It seemed the mainstream conservative view was that it's appropriate to have pollution standards, but we ought to let the free market figure out which energy sources worked best, and where. If something is clean enough and the economics work, great, but we shouldn't use the federal government to promote this and stifle that.

Now we have the Trump Administration giving away well over 600 million taxpayer dollars to prop up the coal industry. I'm happy that Donald Trump isn't trying to kill coal the way Obama and Biden were. I'm unhappy that he wants to subsidize coal. And, as usual, President Trump is not asking Congress to pass legislation to do this. He's using the Defense Production Act to do this. Is the Republican Party still a free-market party, or have Republicans decided that government picking winners and losers is fine, as long as they are in charge of it?