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Vice President JD Vance joins Lawrence Jones in “Fox & Friends” to break down the Trump Administration Administration’s rates and denies reports that Elon Musk leaves the Doge team.
Vice President JD Vance discussed on Thursday the economy and work of the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) in a wide interview to “Fox & Friends”.
The Vice President sat down with the co-presenter of “Fox & Friends” Lawrence Jones on Thursday morning, a day after President Donald Trump He presented a 10% rate on goods imported from foreign countries and the rates of “individualized reciprocal reciprocal” in certain countries, marking the last taxes that the President has sought from taking office in January.
From the left, the second lady USHA VANCE, the Vice President JD Vance, the President Donald Trump and the first lady Melania Trump participate in the starting ceremony of the outgoing President Joe Biden and the first lady coming out Dr. Jill biden in the eastern part of the United States. (Chris Kleponis / Pool Via Reuters / Reuters photos)
During the interview “Fox & Friends”, Vance stated the skepticism over America that benefited from a “globalist economy” and said that the President is “taking This economy In a different direction “when asked about the administration’s rates.
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He told Jones that “it is a lot of debt to buy things that other countries do” it was “not” a recipe for economic prosperity “.
“For 40 years, we have gone down this path. We have seen closing factories, we have seen increasing inflation. We have seen the cost of housing so high that most North -Americans cannot afford to buy a house right now,” he said. “President Trump is taking this economy in a different direction.”
Vance acknowledged that Trump administration’s policies were a “great change”, but stated that the United States “cannot continue to go down the globalist way of Joe Biden, where we have $ 2 trillion debt and peace deficits.”
Jones asked the Vice President about Americans who lived a payment to pay that they could hear the highest pricing bite, to which the Vice President said that the Trump administration was “very hard” to lower them and “to have the greatest deregulation” in the history of the country.
“What would ask the people who appreciated here is that we will not go to fix things at night,” Vance said, saying that the Biden administration left Trump and he “the greatest debt and peace deficit in the history of the United States of America” and extremely high interest rates.
Said the Trump administration He believes that “correct deregulation” will help the North -economically American and make their work more secure because foreign countries “can no longer take advantage of us.
The Vice President JD Vance makes a speech during the plenary session of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris on February 11. (Reuters / Benoit Tessier / Reuters)
Vance also argued that the tax reduction that the Trump administration is ready to pursue are “all of the same policy” as the rates instead of a way to compensate.
Since Trump and Vance took office, their administration has been occupied not only to renew the country’s commercial policy, but also with the significant presentation of expenses and promoting efficiency throughout the federal government through DOGE, which has been helped by Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk.
Politico, quoting unnamed sources, on Wednesday reported that Trump caused his cabinet and the inner circle to know that the departure of Musk from Doo arrived soon, with the CEO of Tesla, as it meant a more important role.
Vance called these reports “False News”.
“Elon came in and we said,” We need the Government to be more efficient. We need to reduce the incredible and vast bureaucracy that will frustrate the will of the North -American people, but it also costs too much money. ”
It Technological billionaire He has directed DOGE as “Special Government Employee”. Special Government employees can work for the Federation’s government for a maximum of 130 days a year.
Vance said that the CEO of Tesla will continue to serve as an advisor, adding that the work of DOGE and Musk is not “even near”.
“Doge has a lot of work to do and, yes, this job will continue after Elon leaves, but essentially Elon will remain a friend and adviser to both me and the president, and he has done a lot of good things.”
President -elect Donald Trump walks with Elon Musk on the left, before attending the viewing of the sixth testing flight of the Spacex Starship Rocket in Brownsville, Texas, on November 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell / Pool through Reuters TPX Pictures of the day / Reuters)
Vance said that Doge has “begun to turn away” to government bureaucracy, but “there is a lot of work to do.”
“It will not happen in six months,” he said. “It will have a long and committed effort.”
DOGE has a goal of reducing federal spending by $ 2 trillion. He called for an estimated total savings of $ 140 million on his website from Thursday.
Musk said in an interview last week with Bret Baier, a Fox News host, who thought that Doge “will have achieved most of the work needed to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars” within his special government period of government.
Under the executive order Trump signed to officially form DOGE, the group is supposed to end their cost reduction efforts in early July next year.
