JD Vance in Trump Research Book
On Civil Rights:
Same-sex & interracial marriage is a distraction
Vance on a Bill to Protect Marriage Equality and Interracial Marriage: "The bill would require federal recognition of all marriages as long as they were deemed valid in the state they were performed. It would also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act,
which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Vance characterized the bill as a solution in search of a problem. 'You have a sky-high inflation crisis, and we're arguing about rights that have already been granted by the
Supreme Court,' he said. 'It seems like a bizarre distraction for a country that actually has much, much deeper and more serious crises.'" [Columbus Dispatch, 8/2/22]AUDIO: On the Bill Cunningham Show, "VANCE: Well, it is one of these issues that I
just don't think is a live issue. I am a Christian, actually a Catholic convert. I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't think the gay marriage issue is alive right now." [Bill Cunningham Show via Soundcloud, 6/27/22]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Education:
Student loan forgiveness is a windfall for the rich
In June 2023, Vance voted for a joint resolution "for congressional disapproval of an October 2022 Education Department rule that allows for loan forgiveness of up to $10,000 in loan debt for federal student loan borrowers. Under the provisions of the
joint resolution, the Education Department rule would have no force or effect, canceling the loan forgiveness program and reinstating loan payments and interest accrual that was suspended under the rule." The vote was on passage. The Senate passed the
resolution by a vote of 52 to 46. President Biden vetoed the resolution. However, the Supreme Court struck down the rule. [Senate Vote 135, H.J. Res. 45, Congressional Quarterly, 6/1/23]Vance Tweeted: "Forgiving student debt is a massive windfall to
the rich, to the college educated, and most of all to the corrupt university administrators of America. No bailouts for a corrupt system. Republicans must fight this with every ounce of our energy and power." [Twitter, @JDVance1, 4/27/22]
Source: Twitter posting in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Education:
Vouchers partly overcome residence-based school segregation
In an op-ed by JD Vance in National Review: "This would require a conservative agenda that appealed to black Americans. Recent Pew polls suggest that black Americans care especially about residential segregation and access to good schools. Conservatives
have potential answers for each of these problems. Urban ghettos, created by racist housing policy and sustained by bizarre administration of federal housing programs, constitute one of the few entrenched problems amenable to policy interventions.
The administration of the federal Section 8 program, for instance, often ignores the importance of eradicating government-created concentrated poverty.
Conservative ideas on vouchers and charter schools have delivered better, if still imperfect, schools -- often with active participation from local [and progressive] school leaders." [Op-Ed by JD Vance--National Review, 8/29/16]
Source: National Review in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Education:
Give parents money for early ed, instead of Head Start
According to an op-ed by JD Vance in the National Review, "Not all early-childhood education is created equal. As progressives push for an expansion of the largely ineffective, federalized
Head Start program, there is a better option: subsidizing early education in the same way we subsidize college education. Give people money and let them decide how to spend it." [Op-Ed by JD Vance--National Review, 1/9/14]
Source: National Review in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Education:
Free tuition sounds great; but vocational training better
According to an op-ed by JD Vance in the Springfield News-Leader, "Democrats today, like Republicans four years ago, appear unable to consider the poor as they actually are. Free college tuition sounds great.
But the reason disadvantaged children don't attend college has little to do with finances and more to do with a lack of preparedness. Indeed, existing public and private need-based aid programs make most colleges affordable for the poor now.
Many European countries devote significant resources to non-university higher education -- vocational schools, apprenticeships and other skills-based training.
In Switzerland, more students opt for vocational training over a traditional education. Consequently, Switzerland has one of the lowest youth unemployment rates." [Op-Ed by JD Vance--Springfield News-Leader, 7/30/16]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Families & Children:
Give newlyweds $30,000 with no payback if they stay married
2022: "Vance does want to see new federal policy to encourage people to stay married. He said he was 'a very big fan' of a law that Hungary's right-wing nationalist government instituted giving newly married couples a low-interest loan
which he said they only have to pay back if they don't stay together.
(The actual policy stipulates that couples don't have to pay back the loans of more than $30,000 if they have three children, not whether they stay
married). 'I think there is real opportunity to send a message through public policy that this is a sacred institution, and we should continue to build it,' he said." [Vice, 7/25/22]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Gun Control:
Red Flag laws eliminate rights without any due process
A tweet from JD Vance: "So all of us agree that we don't want insane people to go and buy a gun and kill people. The question is how to actually accomplish that goal. Importantly, it's already a violation of federal law to sell a gun to a crazy person.
What do red flag laws do? They allow the government to eliminate peoples' rights without any due process. Say your neighbor calls the police and says you're a bad guy who's about to commit a crime? Or maybe your ex complains about you after an argument?
Now the cops can show up and remove your firearms." [Twitter, @JDVance1, 6/2/22]2018: "Vance appeared to endorse new laws to disarm those who are an imminent danger to others. 'We should make it easier to take those guns out of the hands of people
who are about to use them to murder large numbers of people. We've got to have the right balance between protecting citizens, but also protecting our really important and fundamental constitutional liberty.'" [American Journal News, 3/21/22]
Source: Twitter posting in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Health Care:
Question validity of ObamaCare's individual mandate
2011: Then-Judge Kavanaugh Wrote A Dissent Arguing Against The Affordable Care Act's Individual Mandate: "In a 2011 case, Seven-Sky v. Holder, the appeals court upheld the individual mandate to buy health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act.
Kavanaugh wrote a dissent, saying the mandate was essentially a tax and thus outside the court's jurisdiction. This argument later became central when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA." [NBC News, 7/10/18]
An op-ed by JD Vance in the Wall Street Journal: "Judge Kavanaugh has come under fire in some quarters of the right for challenges against ObamaCare--in which he aimed to rule narrowly and fairly rather than politically. In one, he dissented from an
opinion that upheld the individual mandate. He observed that the individual mandate 'is unprecedented in American history' and cast doubt on its validity under either the Commerce or Taxing clause. " [Wall Street Journal, 7/2/18]
Source: Wall Street Journal in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Health Care:
Repeal and replace the ObamaCare disaster
2022: According to the Chronicle-Telegram, "Asked a question related to healthcare, Vance said 'Obamacare was a disaster' but it must be repealed and replaced by something with 'some substance to it, or we are going to get creamed electorally and
we're not actually going to do that job that the people sent us to do." [Chronicle-Telegram, 2/2/22]2010: According to a letter to the editor by J.D. Hamel
[Vance's childhood name and social media pseudonym] in the Butler County Journal-News, "Our system has its troubles, but the biggest of them is spending.
Because Obama-Care does nothing to reduce the inflationary trend of medical costs, it is an abject failure of a reform package. That's why most conservatives opposed it." [Letter to the Editor by JD Hamel--Butler County Journal-News, 4/8/10]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Health Care:
Medicare-for-All is a big handout to wealthy hospitals
Vance on Fox News: "The Democratic Party increasingly represents professional class elites. And Republicans represent middle- and working-class wage earners. Democratic leaders kind of get this. Look at the big proposals from the 2020 Democratic
presidential candidates: universal child care, debt-free college, even Medicare-for-All, which is framed as this lurch to the left, but is really just a big handout to doctors and pharmaceutical companies and hospitals.'" [via YouTube, 7/5/19]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Immigration:
Open to deporting anyone who came to the country illegally
March 2024: "With migrant crossings hitting record highs during Biden's term, Senator Marco Rubio said, 'Whether they're deported through the hearings that they're waiting for, they're deported through some effort to expedite it, something's going to
have to happen. Something's going to have to happen with all the people that have come here,' he said. Added Vance: 'I think you have to be open to deporting anyone who came to the country illegally.'" [Los Angeles Times, 3/30/24]According to the
Denver Gazette, "15 GOP senators asked the Biden administration to finish the border wall along the southern border. The senators claim the Biden administration has 'failed to acknowledge the crisis at our border,' and they note how the administration
has sent 1,500 active-duty troops to assist border officials 'who are tasked with defending nearly 2,000 miles of border territory,' according to the letter. Senators who signed the letter include Rubio (R-FL) and Vance (R-OH)." [Denver Gazette, 5/10/23]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Jobs:
Protecting transgender workers betrays traditionalists
2020: "The Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for LGBT equality a long-sought and unexpected victory. 'An employer who fires an individual merely
for being gay or transgender defies the law,' Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6-to-3 ruling. The decision, the first major case on transgender rights, came amid widespread demonstrations, some protesting violence aimed at
transgender people of color." [New York Times, 6/15/20]Senator J.D. Vance lashed out at the 'conservative legal movement' after the Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender employees should be protected from job discrimination. "The conservative
legal movement has accomplished two things: libertarian political economy [enforced by judges] and betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists,' Vance tweeted." [Washington Examiner, 6/15/20]
Source: Washington Examiner in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
On Tax Reform:
Eliminate SALT deduction: it's massively redistributive
2019: "VANCE: When I think about [Trump's 2017] tax cut legislation, which was OK, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. If I think about the health care legislation which I think was genuinely a moral and political disaster and I'm glad that it
never passed." [American Conservative via YouTube, 6/5/19]2024: "Vance is quietly critical of Trump's signature legislative achievement, the 2017 tax bill, parts of which he views as regrettable vestiges of McConnell-style conservatism. When I asked
him about it, Vance praised parts of the bill--including the elimination of the SALT deduction, which he called 'massively redistributive toward the lower- and middle-income brackets'--while criticizing other elements. Vance admitted that he would have
voted for Trump's tax bill if he had been in the Senate." [Politico, 3/15/24]
2024: "Trump is promising to extend the parts of the 2017 tax law that are set to expire next year, and Vance is expected to support that effort." [Washington Post, 7/16/24]
Source: Washington Post in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
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