In response to China throttling rare earth shipments worldwide, which they currently dominate.

We have the material, we just don't exploit it.

bearister said:

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Let me get this straight, Trump is f@ucking over his base with his tariffs and then he is subsiding them with billions of taxpayer dollars so that they don't think that he f@ucked them over. Is that about right?

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Yes.

He did the same exact thing in his first term when he bailed-out farmers with $28 BILLION from 2018 - 2019.

I thought the GOP was against bail-outs, no?

movielover said:

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We have the material, we just don't exploit it.

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The U.S. has no refining capacity.

movielover said:

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In response to China throttling rare earth shipments worldwide, which they currently dominate.

We have the material, we just don't exploit it.

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Trump put in place big loading fees for Chinese ships coming to US ports, this is what triggered the Chinese rare earth gambit. Trump doubled down with the 130% tariff nuclear option.

The stakes are pretty high.

Cal88 said:

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movielover said:

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In response to China throttling rare earth shipments worldwide, which they currently dominate.

We have the material, we just don't exploit it.

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Trump put in place big loading fees for Chinese ships coming to US ports, this is what triggered the Chinese rare earth gambit. Trump doubled down with the 130% tariff nuclear option.

The stakes are pretty high.

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I read somewhere a $1 million docking fee per port for Chinese-built container ships - in an effort to restart our ship-building industry. Which would provide demand for local steel mills. Problem is, unless a GOP candidate wins, I can see the Dems selling us out, flip flopping back to the status quo. Or even a GOP non-MAGA type. ... BTW, if that $1 million per port fee is true, that may really hammer the Port of Oakland. I can see the large container ships just stopping in LA / LB ports, and returning backrestored? (I've read of one new domestic shipyard being constructed.)

The restoring of drug manufacturing is terrific, but when completed, any idea what % of drug manufacturing will be reshored?