President Trump: Two hundred and fifty years ago, America won our political independence in the Revolutionary War. In my first term, we secured our energy independence, and now in my second term, we're achieving our economic independence, ensuring that America is never again reliant on hostile foreign nations for the resources our country needs to dominate in the future. And we have plenty of those resources. Critical minerals are the raw materials of American strength that power everything from advanced weaponry to automobiles, and we want these essential products to be mined, refined, and made right here in the USA, with the American skill and American hands….For decades, politicians let other countries steal our mines and mining jobs. They'd close up mines; they'd buy a mine and close it, because it was good for them, and put Americans producers out of business. The United States lost more than three thousand, four hundred mines over the past three decades.