Deb Haaland’s Ignorance on China exposed by Former Trump Interior Sec Rep. Ryan Zinke [Video]

Deb Haaland’s Ignorance on China exposed by Former Trump Interior Sec Rep. Ryan Zinke

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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland did not provide specific details about any plans by the Biden administration to increase American access to domestic sources of critical minerals following her issuance of a mining ban across parts of Minnesota when asked to do so by Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) during a Tuesday hearing held by a House subcommittee on appropriations.

Zinke, who held the position of interior secretary during the Trump administration, asked Haaland if the Biden administration had “fast-tracked the production of permitting” of domestic sources of critical minerals following its moratorium decree on mining across a section of Minnesota wilderness thought to contain copper and nickel deposits.

Zinke asked, “Is it your policy that critical minerals should be sourced from countries that are stewards of the environment — like the U.S. and our allies — or sourced from Russia and China that don’t share our same values?”

The representative from Montana emphasized the indispensability of critical minerals in the production of electric vehicles , which the Biden administration frames as essential technology to combat what it dubs “the climate crisis.”

Zinke noted the Chinese government’s growing control of the global supply of critical minerals.

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