Vice President JD Vance visited La Crosse, Wisconsin on Thursday to tout the good news of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and defend the administration’s tough-on-crime stance as Republicans begin early preparations for the midterm elections.
Vance spoke at Mid-City Steel, bringing the administration’s emphasis on manufacturing in to focus as he explained how the Big Beautiful Bill could incentivize manufacturing growth in Wisconsin and across the country.
“When a plant like this makes a big investment, we want to make that pay. We don’t want to penalize it for investing in American workers and American production and the working families,” Vance said.
The Vice President also defended the Big Beautiful Bill’s cuts to Medicaid, which included work requirements that Vance and other Republicans have called reasonable and modest and ensuring that illegal immigrants do not receive taxpayer funded healthcare benefits.
“It’s not about health care for you. It’s about health care for illegal aliens, and we happen to believe in a different principle,” the former Ohio senator said.
Vance also defended the administration’s tough-on-crime stance as National Guardsmen remain in Washington D.C with potential plans to deploy them to Chicago and other major cities in the coming months. (RELATED: JD Vance, Wisconsin, La Crosse, Big Beautiful Bill, Manufacturing, Medicaid, Crime Policy, National Guard, Cavalier Johnson, Midterm Elections)
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has expressed his opposition to National Guardsmen being deployed in the city, prompting a response from Vance where he said that he hopes the Mayor ‘gets common sense’ on the issue.
“I hope the mayor of Milwaukee gets common sense and fights for his residents for a change because we would love to actually help cut down on crime in his community,” Vance said. (RELATED: Big Beautiful Bill Ends Student Loan Program that Some Have Called Exploitative)
