Doug Burgum
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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Others, many others interested, joining a club of nations.
with free trade on critical minerals with price floors.
The key on price floors is that it would block China from illegal dumping to kill the price across any one particular critical mineral.
And that's going to allow the assurance for capital to start flowing back into mining and refining of these minerals in the U.S.
and in our allies.
So tremendous interest from China.
from the leaders, ministers from around the country that were there at the event hosted the State Department last week.
So anyway, great, great progress going to make sure that U.S.
is secure relative to our position on critical minerals.
Well, there's been an attack on American energy in this country, but even longer than that, there's been an attack on mining in our country.
And just like President Trump says, drill, baby, drill, we've got to get back to mine, baby, mine.
The U.S.
graduated 36,000 lawyers last year and about 300 people with mining and metallurgical degrees.
China, of course, is not doing it cleaner than any else.
I mean, whether they're tearing up the Congo or Indonesia, child labor.
illegal cartels, criminal organizations, all of these things that are going on.
It's a dirty industry potentially for the environment, but there's a lot of corruption around that in part because countries like America or like those in Europe that have rules, that have EPAs, that can do things cleaner, better, safer, smarter, both in terms of the environment, in terms of the labor force, basically got out of this business.
And we've got to get, the free world's got to get back into the mining business and show that with innovation,
that we can do it, and we can do it in a way that protects the environment, protects the workers, and also then protects the economies of these countries.
And so this is a strategic importance for the United States to get back in.
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