This bill is America Last.
Copper ore will be mined from Minnesota, shipped to state-owned Chinese companies for smelting, and sold to the highest bidder on the global market.
Republicans sold out the American people to benefit foreign corporate interests.
🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China.
Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.
The Boundary Waters are a national treasure, and its pristine lakes and rivers must be protected for the benefit of future generations of Americans. The Republican Majority in the U.S. Senate voted today to strip away protections for the BWCA, allowing a foreign-owned mining company and serial polluter to begin a sulfide acid mine in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters.
We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Acadia, Glacier, or any of our nation’s revered national parks – and we shouldn’t allow it in the watershed of the Boundary Waters, either.
One hundred percent of copper mines have failed, leading to polluted waters. This case will be no different.
Because of this extremely short-sighted vote, our nation’s most-visited wilderness area faces the threat of permanent toxic pollution.
Why? So Antofagasta, a Chilean corporation that owns Twin Metals, can mine American copper and ship it to China to be smelted and sold on the global market.
Twin Metals has been lobbying President Trump and Republicans in Congress for over ten years to remove the protections from this watershed and renew their mine plans to extract American minerals at the expense of freshwater for future generations.
The science-based evidence is overwhelming: The mineral withdrawal is the only way to protect this wilderness, which is home to some of the cleanest water in the entire world.
We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone.
We don’t allow mining in Glacier.
We don’t allow mining in Yosemite.
We don’t allow mining in Zion.
We don't allow mining in Acadia.
We don't allow mining in Grand Teton.
We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.
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We need to defeat Susan Collins. That work can’t wait until June. So we plan to make clear to Mainers starting today: Susan Collins is not on our side.
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Since @ewarren first proposed her 2-cent wealth tax in 2020, the same proposal would generate twice as much money – because the obscene wealth of billionaires has doubled over the past six years.
Instituting a wealth tax is an urgent national priority. It's how we can fund healthcare, housing, college, and childcare. I'll proudly fight in the congressional trenches alongside Senator Warren to get this done.
The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying.
This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.
In the US Senate, I’ve got a plan to ban it.