President Trump announced more than $180 million in federal grants to rebuild America's shrinking pipeline of mining engineers and critical-mineral workers, a push his administration says is essential to breaking China's grip on the raw materials that power everything from missiles to electric cars. Trump made the announcement Friday at a State Department roundtable flanked […] The post Trump directs $180 million toward mining schools as U.S. enrollment craters appeared first on American Almanac .
President Trump announced more than $180 million in federal grants to rebuild America's shrinking pipeline of mining engineers and critical-mineral workers, a push his administration says is essential to breaking China's grip on the raw materials that power everything from missiles to electric cars. Trump made the announcement Friday at a State Department roundtable flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, along with educational leaders from universities including the Colorado School of Mines. The grants split into two main streams: a $100 million Department of Energy program aimed at expanding the mining and critical-mineral workforce, and more than $80 million in…Open
Photo Credit:G.Mannaerts, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Wikimedia Commons, unaltered. G.Mannaerts, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia By Janet Levy The U.S. must pursue deep-sea mining so that the American economy—and our defense equipment and fighter jets—are no longer dependent on our biggest rival.