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Biden turns to country with documented child labor issues for green energy mineral supplies: 'It's egregious'
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The Biden administration announced this week that it would begin financing mining projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where mines often use child laborers.
"I really want to commend the DRC and Zambia, their governments for their leadership and vision in developing an electric vehicle battery council," Blinken said on Tuesday. "This is the future, and it is happening in the DRC and in Zambia." Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
DRC foreign minister Stanley Kakubo added during the event that his country was committed to actualizing the deal "in a hurry."
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