Sunrise Energy Metals Ltd (SREMF)

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Here's the official White House memo on the event:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-meeting-australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-strengthens-united-states-australia-alliance-close-economic-partnership/

And the relevant section:

The two leaders discussed the President’s plan for financing and building America’s infrastructure. The Prime Minister noted that Australia’s federal and state governments, and its private companies and pension funds, are interested in working with the United States to support building America’s next generation of infrastructure.
The United States and Australia plan to encourage best practices, spur investment, and develop policies to support high quality infrastructure in the United States, Australia, and third countries, in particular in the Indo-Pacific region.
The cooperation of strategic partners can open new worlds of technological development using materials that are lighter, more versatile, or more conductive to open up new manufacturing opportunities, in defense and aerospace, information technology, telecommunications, energy and medicine. The United States and Australia agreed to work together on strategic minerals exploration, extraction, processing and research, and development of rare earths and high performance metals to sustain the jobs of today and develop the jobs of tomorrow.

I guess you can interpret that however you would like. It mostly reads like a bunch of fluff to me, and I certainly wouldn't jump to any conclusion that it excludes support for domestic mining of critical materials.

Furthermore, I highly doubt Trump knows about Sc or any of the specific junior miners planning to produce it in a pure form. I know Jim Sims at Niocorp has had discussions with multiple members of congress, but I doubt any of these discussions have made it to Trump. It is likely in Niocorps best interest that it stays that way.