Dear friend,

Yesterday the Biden Administration banned mining in 225,000 acres of the Iron Range. This is a direct attack on our way of life and will limit America’s future domestic mineral supply chains.

Unfortunately, this harm to our country and our future has become the norm, as this President’s goal is to put America last. Not even one month ago, Joe Biden signed an agreement to fund mining projects in Chinese-owned mines in the Congo, where over 40,000 children work as slaves in forced labor and inhumane conditions with no environmental protections. Meanwhile this week’s mining ban nullifies a Project Labor Agreement with the local building and construction trade unions, costing our workers jobs.

America needs to develop our vast mineral wealth, right here at home, with high-wage, union protected jobs instead of continuing to send American taxpayer dollars to countries like the Congo that use child slave labor. The only winner here is China, as Joe Biden continues to hand our foreign adversaries every advantage possible.

I can assure you that this Administration, from the President to the Forest Service, to the Interior Department, will answer for the pain they elected to cause my constituents with this ban.