JD Vance: "If you want to be rewarded, build in America"

We started a great American comeback.  [We will] make it easier and more affordable to make things in the United States...  This is not always easy and it doesn't happen overnight...  I have to be honest with you.  The road ahead is long, but we are ready - in just seven weeks - starting to see early indications of the president's vision becoming our shared American reality.

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If you want to be rewarded, build in America.  If you want to be penalized, build outside of America. [prompting chants of "USA! USA!"]  It's as simple as that.

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If we do not protect our nation's manufacturers, we lose a fundamental part of who we are as a people.  Making things, building things, working with our hands is America's heritage.  When we lose the ability to make our own stuff, we abandon a way of life.

~ Vice President JD Vance, speech given to plastics manufacturing facility in Michigan, March 14, 2025

(Source: "Vance says U.S. manufacturing can rebound despite tariff jitters, falling markets," The Philadelphia Enquirer, March 15, 2025)

Wall Street Journal: "Do Republicans want to rein in the regulatory state or unleash it?"

Do Republicans want to rein in the regulatory state or unleash it?  It’s hard to tell these days, and the contradiction comes into sharp focus in J.D. Vance’s embrace of Lina Khan, Elizabeth Warren’s favorite regulator who runs the Federal Trade Commission.  At a Bloomberg technology forum in February, Mr. Vance called Ms. Khan “one of the few people in the Biden administration that I think is doing a pretty good job.”

~ WSJ editorial board, "J.D. Vance, Lina Khan and the GOP’s Economic Contradictions," The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2024