JD Vance on

jobs

7 quotes · 2 posts · August 2026

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  1. Vance claims the administration created 29,000 manufacturing jobs in 18 months and reversed wage decline.

    “We've created in just eighteen months, 29,000 new manufacturing jobs and we've reversed years of wage decline where people were getting poor.”

    1:17 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  2. Vance claims 83,000 new factory construction jobs created since Trump's return to office.

    “Nationwide, all across our country, factory construction employment has exploded. 83,000 new jobs in factory consunct, construction just since Donald Trump came back into the White House.”

    11:39 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  3. Vance claims 29,000 new manufacturing jobs created in 18 months, reversing wage decline.

    “We've created in just eighteen months, 29,000 new manufacturing jobs and we've reversed years of wage decline where people were getting poor.”

    12:47 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  4. Vance describes American workers being forced to train their foreign replacements before losing their jobs.

    “In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed, they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced.”

    4:41 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  5. Vance claims all net job growth in the past eighteen months went to native-born Americans, reversing a four-year trend.

    “Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?”

    3:04 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  6. Vance states 83,000 factory construction jobs have been added since Trump's inauguration day.

    “factory construction employment has exploded. We've added 83,000 factory construction jobs just since inauguration day.”

    0:26 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  7. Vance says 29,000 manufacturing jobs have been created in 2026, reversing years of decline.

    “We created more than 29,000 new jobs in the sector in 2026 so far, reversing years of decline in manufacturing employment.”

    1:17 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink

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