by Vice presidents’ jobs are never easy.
Their practical authority is limited. They represent choices that they lack the authority to make. They are given challenging assignments, such as Vice President Kamala Harris’s deployment to address the underlying causes of migration.
I went to a machine plant in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, this morning to see Vice President JD Vance taking on the increasingly delicate chore of selling President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Ordinarily, stumbling for your boss’s signing legislation might not be a difficult task. However, the law—for which Vance voted in favor of it in a tie—is just not that popular, at least not yet. Republicans are already attempting to reverse the bill’s Medicaid cuts, and some have warned that it may cost their party seats.
The administration’s decision to withhold additional information regarding the investigation into convicted sex offender and discredited financier Jeffrey Epstein further exacerbated Vance’s situation by raising suspicions.
Devoted Trump and Vance supporters started to stream into the machine shop, wearing Trump 2028 caps or T-shirts that featured the president’s escape from an assassination attempt last summer. Even then, there were concerns about the new law and indications that Democrats were making progress in their attempts to paint it as regressive and a handout to the wealthy.
I can’t remember the exact number, but the Democrats are claiming that millions of people will lose their health care and other benefits. Jane Mizerak, 68, a Republican from the nearby town of West Wyoming, stated that she had voted for Trump every time he ran for president. “And I just want to know if that’s true,” she said.
Republicans Rebound in Support for Immigration
The percentage of people who believe that immigration is beneficial to this nation now
Source: Gallup polls of American adults conducted between 2001 and 2025.
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