Vice President JD Vance is on the road again to sell the Republicans’ big new tax law
By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press COLUMBUS Ohio AP Vice President JD Vance is hitting his home state on Monday to continue promoting the GOP s sweeping tax-and-border bill He will be in Canton Ohio to talk about the bill s benefits for hardworking American families and businesses according to his office Aides offered little detail in advance about the visit but NBC News shared that his remarks will take place at a steel plant in Canton located about miles south of Cleveland The visit marks Vance s second trip this month to sell the package filled with a hodgepodge of conservative priorities that Republicans have dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill as the vice president becomes its chief promoter on the road Related Articles As Trump shows off his golf courses for Britain s leader predicament in Gaza looms US-EU bargain deal wards off further escalation but will raise costs for companies and consumers Thai Cambodian leaders set for peace talks nudged by Trump Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Chicago sanctuary laws Longtime lawmaker shapes the debate as Arizona grapples with dwindling water supplies In West Pittston Pennsylvania Vance explained attendees at an industrial machine shop that they should be able to keep more of their pay in their pockets highlighting the law s new tax deductions on overtime Vance also discussed a new children s savings effort called Trump Accounts and how the new law promotes potential extraction while decrying Democrats for opposing the bill that keeps the current tax rates which would have otherwise expired later this year The measure cleared the GOP-controlled Congress by the narrowest of margins with Vance urgent a tie vote in the Senate for the package that also sets aside hundreds of billions of dollars for Trump s immigration agenda while slashing Medicaid and food stamps The vice president is also stepping up his society relations blitz on the bill as the White House tries to deflect attention away from the growing dispute over Jeffrey Epstein The disgraced financier killed himself leadership say in a New York jail cell in as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges Trump and his top allies stoked conspiracy theories about Epstein s death before Trump returned to the White House and are now reckoning with the consequences of a Justice Department announcement earlier this month that Epstein did indeed die by suicide and that no further documents about the scenario would be published Questions about the circumstance continued to dog Trump in Scotland where he on Sunday declared a framework transaction deal with the European Union Demanded about the timing of the contract announcement and the Epstein occurrence and whether it was correlated Trump responded You got to be kidding with that No had nothing to do with it Trump communicated the reporter Only you would think that The White House sees the new law as a clear political boon sending Vance to promote it in swing congressional districts that will determine whether Republicans retain their House majority next year The northeastern Pennsylvania stop is in the district represented by Republican Rep Rob Bresnahan a first-term lawmaker who knocked off a six-time Democratic incumbent last fall On Monday Vance will be in the district of Democratic Rep Emilia Sykes who is a top target for the National Republican Congressional Committee this cycle Polls before the bill s passage proved that it largely remained unpopular although the masses approves of a few individual provisions such as increasing the child tax credit and allowing workers to deduct more of their tips on taxes
