Important Takeaways:
- Virginia U.S. Senate candidate and retired U.S. Navy captain Hung Cao earlier this month toured a nearly-finished state-of-art nitrile rubber plant in southwest Virginia that President Joe Biden’s administration has abandoned, allowing China to be on track to become America’s largest supplier of rubber medical gloves, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
- “I don’t understand why Joe Biden hates America so much and hates American manufacturing,” Cao said “We are waiting patiently for November 5th so we can go ahead and start this process and really build up the industry in southwest Virginia as well as bring more revenue to an area that’s been depleted.”
- The plant, located in Wytheville, Virginia, was expected to create 2,500 jobs and bring in $1.3 billion in revenue to the area, and eventually create 4,000 more jobs.
- Blue Star NBR completed building the nitrile rubber plant spring 2023 but ran out of funds due to inflation and the increased cost of building materials and energy costs before it could be hooked up to a power source.
- However, the Biden administration’s HHS has, since last year, refused to provide more money to hook up the finished plant and build a planned adjacent rubber glove factory. Blue Star NBR was forced to begin mothballing the equipment in the factory.
- Blue Star NBR CEO Scott Maier’s appeals to the Biden administration have fallen on deaf ears.
- Meanwhile, the Biden administration has reportedly provided a grant to a factory in Louisiana that is much further behind than Blue Star NBR.
- In the short time that it took for the rubber nitrile plant to be built, China went from being a small global supplier of the gloves to now being on track to become America’s (and the world’s) biggest supplier
- Cao also raised the prospect of China — who was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place — refusing to supply America with gloves.
- “Shocking is the fact that HHS just said no, we have what we need. Because again, they’re reliant on the Chinese-made product instead of relying on Americans,” he said.
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