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Officials say Congress provided $2 billion to stockpile minerals in the national defense stockpile

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Congress appropriated $2 billion for stockpiling minerals in the national defense stockpile.

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The U.S. hosted the Critical Minerals Ministerial in Washington on February 4, 2026, where senior officials including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a U.S.-led plan to diversify and secure global critical minerals supply chains. The administration proposed a preferential trade zone with enforceable price floors and adjustable tariffs, announced Project Vault (a $12 billion strategic minerals reserve), and detailed domestic measures — investment, stockpiling, protection of mining companies, and permitting reform — to rebuild mineral production and processing. Japan and other partners endorsed diversification and multilateral cooperation through initiatives such as FORGE.
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  1. Scheduled follow-up · Feb 05, 2026overdue
  2. Update · Feb 05, 2026, 04:13 AMTech Error
    I attempted to retrieve primary sources (the enacted text of P.L. 119-21 and related congressional documents) to verify the $2 billion appropriation but could not access the full legislative text due to temporary fetch/time-out errors. Please retry after 2026-02-05.
  3. Update · Feb 05, 2026, 02:53 AMTrue
    Congress provided $2 billion in FY2025 for purchases to expand the National Defense Stockpile (via the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund) in the defense reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill, P.L. 119-21) signed July 4, 2025. Multiple legal analyses and government summaries cite Section 20004 (or Title II allocations) authorizing $2.0 billion to boost the NDSTF for critical/strategic minerals; therefore the statement is True: Congress did provide $2 billion to stockpile minerals in the National Defense Stockpile.
  4. Completion due · Feb 05, 2026
  5. Original article · Feb 04, 2026
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