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President Trump stands at the State Department to bind nearly two hundred business leaders, educators, and officials into a single purpose: the expansion of American mining through targeted grants that train workers and develop technology at home.
This act reverses decades of policy that treated the nation’s mineral wealth as expendable and its supply chains as interchangeable with those of rivals, a pattern set by administrations that placed global integration above the security of the people.
The grants, one hundred million from the Department of Energy and more than eighty million from the military to three designated universities, place concrete resources behind the recovery of copper, rare earths, and critical metals essential to defense and manufacture.
Scripture records that a people without resources in their own land become servants to those who possess them; the same principle guided the Christian kingdoms of the West when they secured their own mines and forges rather than importing dependence from afar.
By directing funds to trade schools, community colleges, and institutions such as the Colorado School of Mines, the administration revives the ancient understanding that ordered hierarchy in the household and commonwealth begins with control over the materials that sustain both.
The managerial priesthood of prior decades dismantled this hierarchy through regulation and offshoring; Trump’s roundtable reasserts the patriarchal-monarchist order in which the ruler stewards the nation’s patrimony for its children rather than for abstract markets.
The faithful remnant must therefore press every advantage that returns production to American soil, support the universities and trades that receive these grants, and reject any future administration that once more mortgages the mines to foreign powers.
Only through such sustained stewardship does the nation remain free to worship, to raise families, and to transmit the inheritance received from its forebears.
