Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs

In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bangor Township, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again.

“We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,” he said.

Vance warned that the administration would be paying close attention to U.S. interests.

“So, if you’ve gotten rich the last few decades by ripping off U.S. companies and preying on American workers, well, the president is simply telling you the jig is up,” he said.

The vice president criticized the neglect of previous administrations when it came to offshoring, rather than preserving, American manufacturing jobs.

“For 40 years, the people of this country, the businesses, the workers, everybody, have been neglected, they have been ignored, and they have had a leadership that refuses to stand up for them,” Vance contended. 

The former Ohio senator said that the era of apathy for the plight of American workers is over and that the new administration would be guided by the America First principle.

“We are going to be guided by a very simple principle: Build in this country, we cut your taxes, we reduce your regulation, we reduce your energy costs,” Vance explained.

The vice president was introduced by Kelly Loeffler, the administrator of the Small Business Administration. The SBA recently announced that it would be launching a manufacturing initiative that would cut $100 billion in regulations. 

The vice president didn‘t hesitate to promise that there would be significant consequences for American businesses that continued to strengthen the U.S.’s foremost foreign policy adversary, the Chinese Communist Party, by offshoring manufacturing jobs to the communist nation.

“If you want to manufacture in China, which has the worst and most punitive economic policies towards us anywhere in the world, then you are going to have to pay the consequences,” Vance explained.

The vice president highlighted the importance of being able to produce domestically, because it reduced reliance on potentially hostile powers, such as China, by cultivating self-reliance. 

“Being able to make things is good, because it creates self-sufficiency as a nation, and it creates self-sufficiency in our people,” Vance noted.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. saw firsthand the problems of outsourcing supply chains to China when the Chinese government began hoarding the masks that country had made.  

Vance also detailed the many accomplishments of American workers over the past several decades. 

“American workers famously won the Second World War. American industry took us to the moon. It enabled the silicon revolution that created the most precise and sophisticated jobs imaginable in any field, demanding mechanical expertise on the scale of nanometers, which is so small you can’t even see it,” the vice president told the Michigan crowd. 

Vance assailed the Biden administration for its failures to deliver affordable prices for necessities, such as food and housing, while simultaneously ballooning the national debt at an unprecedented rate.

“They left us with sky-high prices. They left us with home values that had doubled in just four short years; meaning, a lot of American families couldn’t afford to buy or to rent a home. They left us with a historic debt crisis,” Vance said.

Under the Biden administration, federal spending reached 100% of gross domestic product, a number not reached since the immediate aftermath of World War II. 

“What did all that spending, what did all that waste and fraud get us? It got us an economy where Americans couldn’t afford to buy a home, our families couldn’t afford to buy groceries, and our people felt like the American dream was slipping away,” the former Ohio senator concluded. 

In the first two years of the Biden administration with Democratic majorities in both chambers, Congress spent more than the last two years of the Trump administration than occurred during the height of the pandemic. 

Still, the vice president ended on a hopeful note.

“And I feel invigorated that we finally have a president who is turning his back on 40 years of failed policy in Washington, D.C., and is getting back to investing in, and fighting for, the American worker. God bless you guys,” Vance said.

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