Leaked Memo Would Free Companies to Buy Conflict Minerals

(FILES) This photo taken February 23, 2009 shows mining workers standing on a muddy cliff as they work at a gold mine in Chudja, near Bunia, north eastern Congo. Eighteen prospectors were killed overnight on August 19-20, 2009 in a diamond mine in central Democratic Republic of Congo, union officials said on August 20, 2009. Celestin Kubela, the head of the local mining authority in Kasai province, said that the victims, who were all illlegal miners, are thought to have touched a power cable deep underground. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL HEALING (Photo credit should read LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images)

Leaked Trump Presidential Memo Would Free U.S. Companies to Buy Conflict Minerals From Central African Warlords

Trump is planning to suspend a 2010 rule that discouraged American companies from funding human rights abuses through their purchase of “conflict minerals.”