Jacob Helberg

So the Trump administration, Secretary Rubio last spring hosted a big ministerial with 50 countries at the State Department in the Loy Henderson conference room.

And The Undersecretary for Economic Affairs, Jacob Helberg, took what had been called the Mineral Security Partnership under the Biden administration and rebranded it as the FORGE initiative.

But it's basically the same thing, which is we're going to get everybody organized and we're going to say to Japan and Korea and the European Union and Australia and Canada and India, how do we solve this problem? And if you've got...

a lithium project? How can we work together to scale that? And the Chinese are onto us.

um it the the issue with all of these jobs is who can take five weeks off work if you're living paycheck to paycheck the training is surprisingly expensive and if you don't have a guaranteed job at the end of it you're kind of freaked out so we've graduated 200 people in between ohio and indiana so far i was just with jonte hill he's a graduate of the ohio program he and i had been invited to the event that Secretary Rubio and the Vice President did this morning on workforce.

Jacob Helberg, the Undersecretary, hosted us.

Jonte was kind of out of a job, looking hard to find one, saw a post about this program applied.

He is now a fiber technician on our site in New Albany, Ohio.

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If the 20th century was based on oil and steel, the 21st century is based on computing and the minerals that power it, argues Jacob Helberg.

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A training program for entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders to rebuild American manufacturing.

I don't see how American manufacturing fits into this, but nevertheless, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Jacob Helberg hosted the event at the Donald Trump J. Trump Institute of Peace.

This is another piece of the puzzle that's very disturbing because you might remember when the Board of Peace that Trump set up in Europe or at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, it first met After that, the first U.S. meeting was held at this obscure office of the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.

He renamed that, I can't remember what it was before, but he renamed the office the Institute of Peace in Washington.

I mean, it just announced today.

There was no, was there any mention of it before today? They just announced it today and immediately came out with it.

I missed probably the press release or the minor story that came out in June when Jacob Helberg first made mention of it.

Even if I saw it, I wouldn't have paid attention.

for being here.

And thanks particularly to Jacob Helberg for putting this amazing thing together and to Marco Rubio for supporting it and making it possible.

And thanks to all of you for being here to support it, to make it possible to get this thing off the ground.

I mean, I think Marco said a lot of things that I want to echo, which is one, that we need industry and government and educational institutions to cooperate to make something like this make sense.

There are parts of that supply chain that are like a very thin sieve in a place that is not necessarily stable or accessible to the US and allies.

A different version of the world that will take a bunch of investment and national security and energy policy is, for example, Jacob Helberg is working on something called PacSilica, and it's like, okay, for every part of the supply chain, can we invest in more capacity and figure out what the independent paths are? I don't think that means it's all got to be created in the United States.

Comparative advantage is real, but having more than one source is a position that everybody wants to be in.

When we think about the components that we've invested in, we've invested in The labor gap for data centers and robotics.

He's gay?

He's married to Jacob Helberg, the U.S.

Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.

I didn't know that.

He's a

young guy.

His husband, Jacob Helberg, is 36 years old.

And yeah, he's serving under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the second Trump administration.

Prosperity zones and economic zones are among the many phrases they use to make plans like this, regulation-free areas made to enrich tech billionaires, seem more palatable.

This is Jacob Helberg, former top Palantir employee now leading economic development in the State Department, discussing plans to build low-regulation zones abroad.

And so one of our first big flagship efforts is the rollout of this economic security zone in the Philippines.

I hear maybe something with Israel.