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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 7, 2025

To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.

msnbc.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 7, 2025

That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. It's not a recipe for low prices, and it's not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.

cbsnews.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 7, 2025

We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.

cbsnews.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 3, 2025

Look, I frankly thought in some ways it could be worse in the markets because this is a big transition.

cnn.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 2, 2025

Joe Biden left us—this is not an exaggeration, Lawrence—with the largest peacetime debt and deficit in the history of the United States of America, with sky-high interest rates.

thedailybeast.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Apr 2, 2025

I grew up in a family that often did live paycheck to paycheck, and we know a lot of Americans are worried.

thedailybeast.com
Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 1, 2025

It’s not about one man’s whims, but about helping communities come together and build great things.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 1, 2025

These policies will not spur growth that benefits America’s working people.

msnbc.com
Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 1, 2025

But President Trump doesn’t get it.

msnbc.com
Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 1, 2025

We saw a more-than-doubling of investment in the construction of new manufacturing facilities.

msnbc.com
Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Apr 1, 2025

These Tariffs are nearly 10x the size of those imposed during the Trump-Pence Administration and will cost American families over $3,500 per year.

nbcnews.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 30, 2025

I want more babies in the United States of America.

motherjones.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 30, 2025

The days of closed factories, the days of people not being able to get a middle-class job in this country, they’re over.

nbcnews.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

This morning, @JoshKraushaar ran a hit piece against me in Jewish Insider, which has become an anti-JD rag.

thenation.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

I think we are making a mistake. 3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

The U.S. could help the island territory avoid economic exploitation by Europe.

slate.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

From a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and from other nations.

slate.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

What we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to choose through self-determination to become independent of Denmark.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful land mass filled with incredible people.

msnbc.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.

msnbc.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 27, 2025

We respect the self-determination of the people of Greenland, but my argument again to them is I think that you’d be a lot better having — coming under the United States’ security umbrella than you have been under Denmark’s security…

msnbc.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 26, 2025

But I think we are making a mistake. 3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Mar 26, 2025

Leaders in America and in Denmark ignored Greenland for far too long and that’s been bad for Greenland. It’s also been bad for the security of the entire world.

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