I think the president campaigned on being a president of peace. He’s already ended six wars; he’s trying to end another. I think it’s kind of disgraceful that the American media is attacking the president for trying to bring peace to the world, but most importantly, the president is trying to bring peace to the streets of our own cities.
Vance defends President Trump's efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine War against media criticism.
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But I’m not going to do what the president of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult.
Can I say with 100% certainty that it's going to work? No, but you don't do difficult things by only doing what's 100% certain. You do difficult things by trying.
We’re going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that’s the metric by which we’ll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond.
The point that I made to my Republican colleagues, recognizing that there's a diversity of opinions about it, is that the tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first.
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