Gosar Slams Biden Admin For Relying On Dangerous Third World Mines For Vital Minerals

Republican Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar criticized the Biden administration Wednesday morning for relying excessively on third world mines while over regulating essential minerals in the United States.

In January, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limited the development of a mine in Alaska due to worries over the impact on local salmon population, despite it being one of the largest available deposits of copper and gold.

“Pebble Mine for example contains an estimated $400B worth of critical minerals which are essential to our economy and [research and development]. Just think about how many jobs were lost and livelihoods effected,” Gosar said. (RELATED:’Your Administration Shut It Down’: Hawley Confronts Biden Official Over Admin’s Decision To Block Mineral Mining)

The Pebble Mine decision came a year after Biden’s Interior Department canceled copper mine leases held by Twin Metals in Minnesota due to regulatory violations.

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Mineral Mondays host @RepGosar blasts the Biden Admin for adding unnecessary regulation to America’s critical minerals while over-utilizing underregulated mines in other countries that poison millions of people. pic.twitter.com/Q78WjWVitW

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 14, 2023

In a 2022 White House press statement, the Biden administration noted the United States’ increasing dependency on “foreign sources” for minerals necessary to “national security and economic prosperity” as well as household items, such as smartphone batteries.

Gosar voiced his frustration Wednesday, claiming that while “the EPA worries about the potential problems with salmon in Alaska, unregulated gold mining in the third world poisons 15 million people.”