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Biden Pledged To Support US Miners. Now He's Looking To Outsource Their Work to Foreign Green Energy Mines.

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President Joe Biden pledged on the campaign trail to support domestic 
mining projects to power a green energy revolution. Two years later, the 
Democrat is killing those projects as he works to fund foreign mines 
instead.

The Biden administration is considering sending taxpayer funds to "around 
a dozen" mining projects in foreign countries as it looks to secure the 
raw materials used in electric vehicles and solar panels, a top State 
Department official told Axios on Monday. The move comes as Biden delays 
and outright kills major mining projects in the United States—in January, 
for example, the Democrat's Interior Department canceled two leases for 
proposed copper and nickel mines in Minnesota. Biden's Bureau of Land 
Management has also moved slowly on permitting smaller mining projects; 
the agency approved just 14 mine plans last year, a figure well below the 
29 mines the Trump administration approved in 2018.

Biden's unwillingness to unleash American mining—and his apparent 
eagerness to fund foreign mines—flies in the face of his rhetoric on the 
campaign trail and in the White House. In October 2020, with Election Day 
just weeks away, Biden assured American miners his administration would 
support domestic mines, a promise that garnered praise from the National 
Mining Association. Biden now regularly claims his "clean energy agenda" 
will revitalize American manufacturing and create millions of "good-paying 
jobs," including just hours after his administration confirmed its work to 
support mining overseas. "When I think about climate change, I think about 
jobs," the Democrat tweeted Monday. "It's time wind turbine blades, solar 
panels, and electric vehicle batteries were built by American union 
workers in American towns instead of overseas."

Power the Future founder and executive director Daniel Turner admonished 
Biden for "suppressing the domestic supply of minerals," arguing that the 
Democrat's "green jobs" promise is "nothing more than a talking point to 
placate the climate activists."

"The Biden administration is creating a demand for these materials and 
then prohibiting American workers from bringing them to the domestic 
market. There's no logic to this," Turner told the Washington Free Beacon. 
"This administration has a bizarre fascination with enriching and 
strengthening our adversaries, as opposed to strengthening our domestic 
capabilities."

The White House did not return a request for comment.

The Biden administration is already funding one overseas mining project. 
In November, the White House announced a $30 million investment in a 
Brazilian nickel and cobalt mine through the Development Finance 
Corporation, a federal agency that aims to support development in low- and 
middle-income nations. Should Biden expand his support for foreign mines, 
congressional scrutiny will likely follow. Arkansas Republican congressman 
Bruce Westerman has called the direct financing of foreign mining projects 
"horrific," and a Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee aide told 
Axios to expect investigations into the program once Republicans take 
control of the lower chamber next year.

"As soon as we get into the majority, we will be getting pretty deep into 
it," the aide said.

Published under: Biden Administration, Brazil, Department of the Interior, 
Electric Cars, Green Energy, Joe Biden, State Department

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