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Oct 30, 2026
The new rules of the critical minerals game | Rethinking independence in an interdependent world
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15:28Widad WhitmanGUEST
and continuously analyze where gaps emerge when we make these investments and then work with our counterparts across the interagency and some of the other program offices to make sure that we fill those gaps as necessary.
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15:42Widad WhitmanGUEST
We also have loans and at Department of Energy that is under the Energy Dominance Finance Office.
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15:49Widad WhitmanGUEST
Those are best when projects are commercially promising, but face various financing barriers.
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15:57Widad WhitmanGUEST
We have a few instances where we couple the grants and the loans and do have those authorities that we can pull where we're needed.
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16:06Widad WhitmanGUEST
We also, in working closely with the IRS and Treasury, have tax incentives that As you may know, the first FIAC tax incentive program, 30D, was for the electric vehicle programs.
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16:19Widad WhitmanGUEST
That was the initial blueprint for how we apply foreign entity of concern provisions to ship supply chains out of PRC, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
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Dominic RaabGUEST
And one of the things we look at is what would it have taken government support or otherwise to have got those projects over the line? I think that's something like the analysis that needs to take place.