Trump and JD Vance are currently on a completely different continent, and they are still asking Epstein questions
Canton, Ohio (AP) – Vice President JD Vance It continues to drive GOP’s sweeping tax and border bills as it hits his hometown on Monday.
A crowd of neon green, orange, yellow and red hard hats and safety glasses gathered at Metallus Inc. in Canton, about 60 miles (96.56 kilometres) from Cleveland.
The visit marks Vance’s second trip this month to sell packages filled with Republican-dubbed conservative priorities hodgepodge. “One big, beautiful bill” When the Vice President becomes the main promoter on the road.
In West Pittston, Pennsylvania Vance told the attendees Industrial machinery shops emphasize that they should be able to maintain more pay in their pockets and are working overtime with new tax credits in the law.
Vance also discussed a new child savings program called the Trump Account and how the new law would promote energy extraction, but denounced Democrats for opposing a bill that would maintain the current tax rate that had expired later this year.
The law clears the GOP-controlled parliament With the narrowest margin, Vance defeated Thai votes in the Senate of Packages, which has put hundreds of billions of dollars aside for Trump’s immigration agenda while cutting Medicaid and food stamps.
Also, as the White House distracts attention, the Vice President is blitzing his public relations blitz with the bill. The growing controversy over Jeffrey Epstein.
Authorities say the dishonest investor committed suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019, when he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Trump and his top allies have sparked theories of a plot about Epstein’s death before Trump returned to the White House, taking into account the results of the Department of Justice’s announcement that Epstein died from suicide earlier this month and that further documents regarding the case will not be released.
A small group of protesters gathered outside the Metallus plant swaying signs that “GOP” represents “pedophiles” spelled “JD protects pedophiles.” They are also known as the big beautiful bills “ugi” and “bulls (asterisks) (asterisks) (asterisks) t.”
Questions about the incident continued to Trump in Scotland with dog Trump, where he said on Sunday. Framework trading agreement announced With the European Union.
Asked about the timing of the trade announcement and the Epstein case, Trump replied, “You had to make a joke about it.”
“No, it had nothing to do with that,” Trump told reporters. “You alone will think about it.”
The White House sees the new law as a clear political bounty and is sending Vance to promote it in Congressional districts that will determine whether Republicans will hold a House majority next year.
The northeastern Pennsylvania stop is in a district represented by Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, the first-term lawmaker who knocked out six Democrats last fall.
On Monday, Vance will be in the district of Democrat Emilia Sykes, the biggest target of the national Republican Congressional committee for the cycle.
A spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called it “another hopeless attempt to lie to Ohio, to working families that devastatingly ugly laws.” In a statement.
In a statement, Katie Smith said Sykes “fighted teeth and nails against this disastrous law.”
Polls before the bill passed showed that it was largely unpopular, but the public has approved several individual provisions, such as an increase in child tax credits and workers increasing tax tips.