I grew up in a family that often did live paycheck to paycheck, and we know a lot of Americans are worried.
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Vance empathizes with Americans struggling financially due to economic policies.
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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.
Why don’t the Democrats just stop this entire charade and reopen the government so that we don’t have to try to make this thing work on a shoestring budget.
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.
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.





