The administration argues that relying on imported metals could reduce demand for American-made materials, leaving the US with less domestic production and fewer critical supplies in the event of a national emergency.
And because brass instruments are made mostly from copper and zinc, they have been swept into the same net as fire extinguishers, floor safes, electrical cables, welding-machine parts, and tanker trailers.
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And by the looks of it we have pretty good marble here.
I don’t consider myself particularly patriotic but I do feel like national state buildings should be made with materials from this country.
It’s big enough. We have the basics here. Marble. Wood.
Why not showcase this countries materials ?
Also did you see the bathroom?. It’s so ugly.
Tbh if I didn’t hate the man I’d like the bathroom.
But yeah I feel that public buildings should use American materials. Really they should prioritize materials within their jurisdiction, and where it’s not possible as close to the level of jurisdiction as possible, including continent level. That means if we don’t have it then we should check if canada or Mexico do. And I’m not saying to use the gray granite that my link included, we can bypass for concerns of beauty and practicality, but there’s beautiful stone in America. And in general I feel it adds to the local identity to use materials from there. New Mexico, Vermont, and Minnesota shouldn’t have state houses that look the same.
Exceptions of course for gifts, like, actual gifts, not grift gifts. The statue of liberty being french bronze is great, it remains a symbol of the fact that they used to like us back in the day.