JD Vance · Forbes Breaking News · 21 August 2026

“manufacturing workers wages actually went up 4.2% where they went down under the Biden administration, and frankly, they've been higher in the industries where you've seen that decline in illegal immigration into our country like construction and commercial trucking.”

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