Steel Is National Security
President Donald Trump has announced a new $15 billion steel plant being built in Iowa. The Mesabi Metallic plant in Lee County, a rural area in southeastern Iowa, will be the largest steel plant in the United States. The plant is scheduled to open in 2030 and use ore mined in Minnesota, and ferried down the Mississippi River to Iowa.
This follows announcement of expansion of the existing Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant in Middletown, Ohio. Steel production is extremely vital to national security. The United States had allowed its steel plants to go belly up with production moving mostly to Communist China. But now there is a renewed interest in strategic minerals as well as steel.
The Covid evil has been exposed again. In hearings Monday hosted by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, senators learned of how hospitals failed to administer proper care during the pandemic. Johnson claimed leaders used the pandemic to “gain undue power and control over our response to COVID.” He apologized to those who lost someone to “cruel” hospital policies. Here’s more from And We Know.
