{"id":1037334,"date":"2024-07-17T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037334"},"modified":"2024-07-17T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:37:19","slug":"fact-check-jd-vance-has-spent-his-career-putting-silicon-valley-billionaires-and-trumps-extreme-maga-agenda-ahead-of-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-jd-vance-has-spent-his-career-putting-silicon-valley-billionaires-and-trumps-extreme-maga-agenda-ahead-of-working-people\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: JD Vance Has Spent His Career Putting Silicon Valley Billionaires And Trump\u2019s Extreme MAGA Agenda Ahead of Working People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As JD Vance prepares to address the RNC for the first time since joining Donald Trump\u2019s losing MAGA ticket, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJD Vance pretends to be a populist but is just another MAGA Republican in the pocket of special interests. At every opportunity, Vance leaves hard-working Americans behind, siding with his Silicon Valley benefactors, Project 2025 cronies, and Trump\u2019s billionaire Mar-a-Lago buddies. Vance doesn\u2019t care if the Trump-Vance tax scam leads to an \u2018inflation bomb\u2019 that will skyrocket costs for working families. When the chips were down, Vance turned his back on unions, opposing legislation to raise wages, benefits, and working conditions for members. And when bipartisan funding was on the table to secure our border and increase fentanyl screenings to tackle the opioid epidemic, Vance followed Trump\u2019s order to \u2018kill\u2019 the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVance\u2019s agenda sells out working people in exchange for campaign donations and a spot on the most extreme presidential ticket in modern American history. Nothing he says tonight can change that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: Vance backs Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda that includes giving handouts to the ultra-wealthy (again) at the expense of working Americans and risks supercharging inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a> on Trump\u2019s plan that would raise tariffs to kill the income tax for wealthiest Americans and raise costs for hardworking families: \u201cThis is a fascinating proposal<\/strong> and we could talk for a while about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cYou\u2019re all people that have a lot of money \u2026 You\u2019re rich as hell. \u2026 We\u2019re gonna give you tax cuts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanity Fair<\/a>: \u201cDonald <\/strong>Trump <\/strong>Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cSixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump\u2019s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025<\/a>: \u201cThe corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Plan to Supercharge Inflation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: Vance opposes legislation that protects unions, standing firmly against working people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cVance has consistently opposed the PRO Act, the \u2018holy grail of pro-union labor reform\u2019 that organized labor and its allies on the Hill have been fighting for over two years to get passed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: At Trump\u2019s command, Vance helped tank popular bipartisan legislation to improve our immigration system and fund fentanyl screenings at the border.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance<\/a>: \u201c[The bipartisan border security bill] does nothing to secure the border.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump, who is hoping to make immigration a key plank of his presidential campaign, has suggested on Truth Social that approving additional resources for the border would make Republicans \u2018look bad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cTwo in Three Americans Support the Bipartisan Immigration Deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo in three Americans supported the bipartisan immigration deal reached in the Senate, but that will not be taken up for a vote in the House. \u2026 On the Republican approach to the recent immigration package, Americans\u2019 greatest concerns are that they are focused on the wrong issues and playing politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: Vance has railed against Social Security and Medicare and criticized the Affordable Care Act, which Trump is pushing to \u201c<\/strong>terminate<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201c[Social Security and Medicare] are the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cThe way forward is as obvious as it is politically difficult: \u2026 reform current entitlements and avoid enacting new ones.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to, frankly, stop spending so much on welfare benefits and start having a lot more workers who are paying into the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance, in a New York Times Op-Ed<\/a>: \u201cIt is true, as Republicans argue, that health care costs too much. And it is also true that Obamacare has failed to take care of this problem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: Vance \u2014 who compared abortion to slavery \u2014 supports a national abortion ban, criticizes exceptions for rape and incest, and blocked protections for reproductive health care access.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Backs \u2018National Standard\u2019 for Abortions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cBut Vance\u2019s past remarks on abortion and women \u2014 and his subsequent attempts to modify them \u2014 are providing Democrats running against Trump with rocket fuel for their strategy on abortion rights. Vance indicated in a 2021 interview that he did not support abortions even in cases of rape or incest <\/strong>\u2026 <\/strong>He has also equated the procedure to \u2018murder.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest\u2014and dismissed those catalysts as \u2018inconvenient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Two wrongs don\u2019t make a right,\u2019 he said in 2021 when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThursday\u2019s vote comes a week after Republicans blocked a similar bill from Democrats that would have guaranteed the right to contraception.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation led by Democrats to revive the protections of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court eliminating the nationwide right to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Vance said himself that when it comes to ripping away reproductive freedoms, he is in lockstep with Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Hannity, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cSo you completely agree, are in full, complete agreement with President Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance: \u201cMy view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate this party and drive this party forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As JD Vance prepares to address the RNC for the first time since joining Donald Trump\u2019s losing MAGA ticket, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cJD Vance pretends to be a populist but is just another MAGA Republican in the pocket of special interests. 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