Stauber Slams Biden Administration’s Broken Promise to Minnesota’s Miners
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Upon receiving the news that the Biden Administration is putting forward a new political, partisan obstacle intended to ban mining in northern Minnesota, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) made the following statement slamming the decision:
"Quite simply, President Biden is putting politics over science.
"Nearly a year ago, candidate Joe Biden pledged to support Minnesota's miners in their mission to obtain good-paying mining jobs, bring economic prosperity to a region that desperately needs it, and secure America's critical mineral supply chain. Joe Biden has officially failed to uphold this promise.
"At the beginning of the year, I sent a letter to President Biden opposing Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary, citing concerns over her longstanding anti-mining position. Meanwhile, Biden also nominated Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary, who is on the record for his opposition to mining. My concerns were met with silence from the President.
"To be clear, I not only place blame on this Administration, but am disappointed in our United States Senators and Democrat House members from Minnesota who have the President's ear and either stood silently by, or actively let these union jobs go up in smoke. They are complicit in this incredibly harmful decision. I'm concerned there will be more devastating decisions ahead.
"Today's announcement further proves that the Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress are incapable of doing what's right for union members and working families across northeast Minnesota.
"Rather than promoting the dignity of work, they're comfortable seeing Minnesota's union members and skilled workers sidelined. Instead of empowering Minnesotans to develop the minerals necessary for almost every sector of our economy under the strongest labor and environmental standards in the world, they are willing to rely on hostile nations that utilize child slave labor and terrible environmental practices. This decision is unacceptable on every level, and I will not stop until it has been reversed."
BACKGROUND:
In 2016, with only days remaining in the Obama-Biden regime, the Administration initiated a political withdrawal intending to ban mining in northern Minnesota. President Trump responsibly ended this stunt, offering a fair process for the company to begin permitting the Twin Metals project.
Today, President Biden reverted to the Obama-Biden scheme of using a political study to ban mining.
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