And

thanks for bringing it up because this is a set of issues that I did a lot of work on in the previous administration.

And the Trump administration has really supercharged the conversation around critical minerals and especially reducing our dependence on China.

That's a good thing.

I would also put a spotlight on something that happened on Wednesday, which is the president issued a proclamation in the Oval Office concluding the 232 investigation that he had directed on critical minerals.

And very important, after pretty much a year that was very strongly focused on, we've got to do this all in the United States, a sort of pure MAGA approach to solving the critical minerals challenge, the proclamation said something very different.

It mandated USTR and the Secretary of Commerce to negotiate agreements and to build partnerships to reduce our dependence on China and make our supply chains more secure.

Lacking urgency on this? Are we expecting something that isn't there? What's happening here? I think