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  • Intel stock has gotten an unexpected boost from JD Vance

    Intel stock has gotten an unexpected boost from JD Vance


    Intel (INTC) stock rose nearly 3% in early trading Wednesday, extending gains from the prior day, when Vice President JD Vance made bullish comments about domestic chip manufacturing.

    “To safeguard America’s advantage, the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built in the US with American designed and manufactured chips,” Vance said at an address at the AI Summit in Paris Tuesday.

    Intel stock jumped 6% following the comments. Though Intel has a heaping pile of internal issues that have set back its dominance in chip manufacturing, the company is one of the United States’ biggest hopes for domestic AI chip production. Intel is the only large-scale American leading-edge foundry for computer chips — which means it manufactures chips for both itself and other companies.

    The overwhelming majority of the world’s most advanced chips for AI are manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC (TSM). Even Intel outsources production of its most advanced AI chips to its rival. While Korea’s Samsung (005930.KS) and TSMC have expanded operations in the US thanks to financial incentives from the US CHIPS Act, most of their manufacturing capacity is in their home countries.

    It’s unclear how Trump would “ensure” AI systems in the United States use US-made chips, as Vance said. Trump on his campaign trail bashed the CHIPS Act, a set of financial incentives for chip companies aimed at bolstering domestic production, which was passed under former President Joe Biden but authored under Trump’s first administration. Trump suggested on an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” in October that he would put tariffs on chip imports, believing that would force companies to relocate to the US.

    “[Y]ou put a big tariff on the chips coming in. I say, ‘You don’t have to pay the tariff, all you have to do is build your plant in the United States,’” he said.

    Meanwhile, Intel has fallen far behind TSMC in manufacturing, and current employees at Intel’s foundry told Yahoo Finance in December that its latest manufacturing process for AI chips has “a lot of issues.”

    Vice President JD Vance addresses the audience at the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
    Vice President JD Vance addresses the audience at the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) · ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Intel’s long-term commitment to foundry has also recently been called into question. The company began its massive push toward opening up its manufacturing business to external customers under CEO Pat Gelsinger, who was ousted by the board in December as investors grew impatient with the money-losing approach. Intel is in the process of searching for a new CEO. In the past week, Intel’s AI chief left the company to take on the role of CEO of Nokia.



    Intel stock has gotten an unexpected boost from JD Vance

    Intel, the technology giant known for its computer chips, has recently seen a surge in its stock price thanks to an unexpected source – JD Vance. Vance, a prominent author and political figure, recently announced that he would be running for the US Senate in Ohio, and his ties to Intel have given the company’s stock a significant boost.

    Vance has a history of working with Intel, having previously served as a venture capitalist at the company’s investment arm, Intel Capital. His ties to the technology industry have made him a valuable asset to Intel, and investors are optimistic about the company’s future prospects with Vance potentially representing their interests in the Senate.

    The news of Vance’s Senate run has led to a sharp increase in Intel’s stock price, with shares climbing more than 5% in recent days. This unexpected boost has caught many investors off guard, but it seems like Vance’s connections and expertise in the technology sector are paying off for Intel.

    As Vance’s Senate campaign gains momentum, it will be interesting to see how his ties to Intel continue to impact the company’s stock price. In the meantime, investors are keeping a close eye on both Vance’s political ambitions and Intel’s performance in the market.

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  • Vance and Duffy Echo Trump in Blaming D.E.I. for Crash Near Washington


    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance joined President Trump on Sunday in blaming diversity hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration for the midair collision of a commercial jet and a military helicopter near Washington last week.

    “The person at the controls didn’t have enough staffing around him or her because we were turning people away because of D.E.I. reasons,” Mr. Vance said on Fox News, using the abbreviation for diversity, equity and inclusion. “D.E.I. policies have led our air traffic controllers to be short staffed — that is a scandal.”

    On Thursday, Mr. Trump, without evidence, linked his long-running complaints about diversity hiring practices to the crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport. The president quoted from the F.A.A. website, which he said had indicated that the agency was looking to hire people with disabilities.

    No evidence suggests that diversity hiring programs contributed to the crash on Wednesday night. Those programs — some of which started or continued under Mr. Trump’s first term — followed the same aptitude, medical and security standards used for hiring candidates without disabilities.

    In 2019, for example, a pilot program that the F.A.A. began for hiring 20 people with disabilities emphasized that those candidates would “receive the same rigorous consideration” as those considered for “a standard public opening for air traffic controller jobs.”

    But on Sunday, Mr. Duffy suggested without offering evidence that efforts to diversify hiring had affected the quality of the work force at air traffic control towers.

    “You can’t focus on diversity, equity and inclusion when you try to hire air traffic controllers,” Mr. Duffy said on Fox News. “You focus on the best and the brightest.”

    Michael McCormick, a former vice president of the F.A.A. Air Traffic Organization who oversaw hiring of controllers during his tenure from 2011 to 2015, said in an interview that Mr. Trump, Mr. Vance and Mr. Duffy were making “baseless claims.” He characterized diversity programs as a recruitment tool for reaching out to candidates with minority backgrounds and said they did not compromise hiring standards.

    When the F.A.A. makes a hiring decision after air traffic controller candidates go through training, he said, the agency “does not take into account gender, age, race, creed, color” but solely considers “the merits and the abilities of the individual.” Mr. McCormick worked for the F.A.A. for more than three decades and now teaches at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

    On Sunday, Mr. Duffy also criticized the Biden administration for changing some aviation terms such as cockpit and Notice to Airmen — the system notifying air industry members of potential hazards — to more gender-neutral terms such as flight deck and Notice to Air Mission. He suggested without offering evidence that such changes had shifted focus away from ensuring the highest levels of aviation safety.

    “When you don’t focus on safety and you focus on social justice or the environment, bad things happen,” Mr. Duffy said on CNN.

    Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, echoed the Trump administration officials in pinning the blame on diversity and inclusion programs for low staffing, and claimed that a focus on such programs hurt recruitment and retention.

    “D.E.I. is poison,” Mr. Schmitt said on NBC. “Merit has taken a back seat to quotas.”

    But no such quotas exist for hiring air traffic controllers, Mr. McCormick said. Recent staffing shortages around the nation’s air traffic towers have been caused by years of employee turnover, lack of funding and difficulties with in-person training during the coronavirus pandemic, not by diversity hiring practices.



    In the wake of the tragic crash near Washington D.C., Senators Vance and Duffy are echoing President Trump’s sentiment by blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion (D.E.I.) initiatives for the incident. The two lawmakers have been vocal opponents of such programs, arguing that they prioritize identity politics over meritocracy and safety.

    Their remarks have sparked outrage and backlash from critics who argue that D.E.I. is not to blame for the crash, but rather systemic issues such as reckless driving and inadequate infrastructure. Many are calling for a more nuanced and evidence-based approach to addressing the root causes of such incidents, rather than scapegoating marginalized communities.

    As the debate rages on, it is clear that the conversation around D.E.I. and its impact on society is far from over. It remains to be seen how lawmakers and the public will navigate these complex and contentious issues in the future.

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  • JD Vance condemns FEMA’s response to Helene devastation in first trip as VP


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    DAMASCUS, Va. – Vice President JD Vance on Monday traveled to Damascus, Virginia, a town on the southwestern edge of the state that was hit hard by Hurricane Helene in September.

    The visit was Vance’s second time to Damascus and his first official trip as vice president, coming just days after President Donald Trump traveled to western North Carolina on Jan. 24 to tour areas still struggling to recover after the hurricane.

    “The local government’s working, the state government is working as hard as it can, the local communities and the nonprofits and the churches are working at breakneck speed, and yet you have the federal government out there — the biggest institution with the most money — that’s not doing its job. It just drives home how much better we can do,” Vance told Fox News Digital when asked about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) response to hurricane-damaged areas across the Southeast.

    Vance met Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, State Sen. Todd Pillion, Damascus Mayor Katie Lamb, as well as local law enforcement officers and firefighters for a private round table discussion upon arrival at the Damascus Fire Department just before 1 p.m. Youngkin and Lamb described blown-up photos showing streets in downtown Damascus that were flooded over after Helene swept through the area on Sept. 27, causing a creek that runs through town to overflow.

    TRUMP’S VISIT TO SMALL-TOWN NORTH CAROLINA BRINGS HOPE TO HURRICANE SURVIVORS WHO LOST EVERYTHING

    Vice President JD Vance, center, meets with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, right, in Damascus, Virginia, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This is Vice President Vance’s first official trip with the Trump administration to Damascus, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)

    While speaking to the press afterward, the vice president noted stories about locals who came together to help those in need after the disaster, saying he is grateful to live in a country that prides itself on charitable work.

    A truck displays a sign saying, “Damascus Strong” as Vice President JD Vance visits Damascus, Virginia, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This is Vice President Vance’s first official trip with the Trump administration to Damascus, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)

    Trump and Vance have been vocal in their criticism of FEMA’s handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene before and soon after taking office. The White House announced plans last week to create a council to assess the agency and how it manages assistance for Americans during disasters.

    In mid-January, FEMA had plans to end temporary housing assistance — which gave FEMA-funded hotel vouchers to those impacted by the hurricane — for some 2,000 North Carolina residents on the same weekend a snowstorm was blowing through the area, but the agency has since extended that deadline multiple times after public outcry, the most recent extension being a May 26 deadline.

    HURRICANE SURVIVORS WHO MET TRUMP IN NORTH CAROLINA SHARE PRESIDENT’S WORDS THAT STUCK WITH THEM

    Vice President JD Vance meets with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin along with Mayor Katie Lamb and State Senator Todd Pillion in Damascus, Virginia, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This is Vice President Vance’s first official trip with the Trump administration to Damascus, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)

    “The thing that I heard most when I was in western North Carolina before the inauguration, but it was after the election, is that there are people who wanted to put trailers or other temporary housing in particular areas of western North Carolina, but they couldn’t because FEMA designated these particular areas to be ineligible for the type of assistance that would allow people to put that temporary housing in the first place. That’s another example of the sort of thing that’s broken about the federal response,” Vance said.

    Vice President JD Vance waves as he arrives on Air Force Two on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, Pool)

    Trump stopped in Fletcher and Swanannoa, North Carolina, on Jan. 24 to share his plans for the area and hear from locals who lost everything in the hurricane. 

    Several Swannanoa residents who spoke to Fox News Digital during the president’s visit complained of government red tape that has made it difficult for them to get monetary or housing assistance in a reasonable amount of time. Others expressed that while they did receive assistance from FEMA after the hurricane took everything they had, it was not quite enough to help them get back on their feet.

    ‘A BIG RELIEF’: NC RESIDENTS DESCRIBE MEETING WITH TRUMP AFTER FEELING ‘IGNORED’ POST-HURRICANE

    Vice President JD Vance arrives in Damascus, Virginia, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This is Vice President Vance’s first official trip with the Trump administration to Damascus, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)

    Vance said “one of the takeaways” from his first week as vice president is that Americans “should have higher expectations for their federal government.”

    “Government is as fallible as the people who run it. But we can do a heck of a lot better than we have over the last few years.”

    — JD Vance

    “I talked to so many people who will say, in effect, ‘Well, it’s the federal government, all the bureaucracy, all the red tape.’ No, no, no, no. The bureaucracy and the red tape is not an excuse for the government to not do its job,” Vance said. “We’re not going to be perfect. We never will be. Government is as fallible as the people who run it. But we can do a heck of a lot better than we have over the last few years.”

    A fire truck displays a sign saying, “Damascus Strong” as Vice President JD Vance visits Damascus, Virginia, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This is Vice President Vance’s first official trip with the Trump administration to Damascus, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)

    The vice president, who has familial ties to Appalachia, noted that the region has been “ignored and left behind for decades, for generations in this country.”

    “Again, we’re never going to be perfect, but I promise you that this administration will not forget you. We love you. We’re rooting for you,” Vance said. “And we want to be part of this incredible recovery here in southwest Virginia. God bless you guys.”

    TRUMP TO VISIT BATTERED NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS STILL SUFFERING MONTHS AFTER HELENE: ‘TREATED BADLY BY DEMOCRATS’

    Vice President JD Vance, left, with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., right, speaks outside the Damascus Diner, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Damascus, Virginia, after receiving a briefing on recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, Pool)

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    More than 200 people died as a result of Hurricane Helene across six states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Recovery is a massive and ongoing undertaking in many areas of the Appalachian region that were destroyed by historic flooding and heavy winds in late September, and many residents in these areas who lost their homes in the storm are still living in campers and tents four months later.

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says only half of the debris recovery from Hurricane Helene is complete. 



    In a bold and unprecedented move, newly appointed Vice President JD Vance wasted no time in making his first official trip to the devastated region of Helene to survey the damage and meet with residents affected by the recent natural disaster. But instead of offering words of comfort and support, Vance shocked the nation with a scathing condemnation of FEMA’s response to the crisis.

    In a press conference held in the heart of Helene, Vance pulled no punches as he criticized the federal agency for what he deemed as a lackluster and insufficient response to the widespread destruction caused by the hurricane. “It is unacceptable that in the richest and most powerful country in the world, our citizens are left to fend for themselves in the wake of such a devastating disaster,” Vance declared.

    The Vice President went on to promise that he would personally oversee the relief efforts and ensure that the people of Helene receive the assistance they so desperately need. “I will not rest until every family has a roof over their heads, every business is back up and running, and every community is rebuilt stronger than before,” Vance vowed.

    The bold and decisive stance taken by JD Vance has divided public opinion, with some praising his no-nonsense approach and willingness to take action, while others question the appropriateness of his harsh criticism of a federal agency. Regardless of where one stands on the issue, one thing is clear: Vice President JD Vance is not afraid to shake things up and make his mark on the political landscape.

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  • JD Vance visiting Virginia on Monday in first official trip as vice president


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    FIRST ON FOX: JD Vance is “fulfilling his promise” to American voters as he makes his first trip as vice president to Damascus, Virginia, on Monday to visit areas affected by Hurricane Helene in late September.

    It will be Vance’s second trip to Damascus since the hurricane swept across the southeast on Sept. 27, destroying parts of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and leaving more than 200 people dead.

    “Vice President Vance visited with Damascus residents in October after the town was ravaged by Hurricane Helene,” a spokesperson for the vice president told Fox News Digital. “He pledged to be back, and now he’s fulfilling his promise. The first week of this administration has made it clear that President Trump and Vice President Vance keep their word.”

    Vance’s trip comes just days after President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and other politicians visited Asheville, Fletcher and Swannanoa, North Carolina, on Jan. 24, marking the now-president’s second trip to those areas since September.

    HURRICANE SURVIVORS WHO MET TRUMP IN NORTH CAROLINA SHARE PRESIDENT’S WORDS THAT STUCK WITH THEM

    Vice President-elect JD Vance, left, takes the oath of office as his wife, Usha, watches on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

    Trump spoke in all three towns but allowed a group of locals who lost everything in Helene to share their own personal stories during his stop in Swannanoa. Some locals have taken issue with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) handling of the disaster, saying it has too much red tape for those in need of immediate assistance to get the help they need, whether it be housing, money or both.

    “I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA,” Trump told reporters in North Carolina on Friday morning. “I think, frankly, FEMA is not good.”

    FEMA EXTENDS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM FOR NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS DISPLACED BY HURRICANE HELENE

    President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C., on Jan. 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Trump also promised that his administration would step in and assist North Carolina to fix the damage quickly, vowing to “do a good job” for the state. 

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    “We’re going to fix it, and we’re going to fix it as fast as you can,” Trump said. “It’s a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down, let the country down. And I don’t know if that’s [former President Joe] Biden’s fault or whose fault it is, but we’re going to take over. We’re going to do a good job.”

    Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.



    JD Vance, the newly appointed vice president, will be visiting Virginia on Monday in his first official trip since taking office. Vance is set to meet with local leaders and community members to discuss his plans for the future of the country.

    During his visit, Vance will address key issues facing Virginia, including economic development, education reform, and healthcare access. He will also take the time to listen to the concerns of residents and gather feedback on how the federal government can better support the state.

    Vance’s visit comes at a crucial time for Virginia, as the state continues to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. His presence is sure to bring attention to the region and highlight the importance of strong leadership in times of crisis.

    Stay tuned for updates on Vance’s visit to Virginia and follow along as he works to make a positive impact on the state and the country as a whole.

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  • Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 26, 2025


    The following is the full transcript of an interview with Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 26, 2025.


    MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Vice President, if you’re ready, we’ll dive right in.

    VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Ready to go.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: So, both defense secretaries from President Trump’s last term were confirmed overwhelmingly, 90 percent of the vote. Pete Hegseth, it was a tie, bipartisan opposition, smallest margin since the job was created. You had to break that tie. If the nominee can’t unite your party, how is he going to lead three million people?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, look, I think Pete is a disrupter, and a lot of people don’t like that disruption, but Margaret that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what did they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive. They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change. Now, admittedly, there are people who don’t like that big change, but it is necessary, and it’s explicitly what Donald J. Trump ran on and I think part of the reason why the American people elected him their 47th president. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: So, the main objective is changing all of that? That it’s going to be Pete Hegseth alone?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: I’d say the main problem is- or excuse me, the main thing that we want Pete Hegseth to do is to fix the problems at the Department of Defense and unfortunately, there are many. We’ve gotten into way too many wars that we don’t have a plan for winning. We’ve gotten into way too many misadventures that we shouldn’t have got into in the very first place, and our procurement process, Margaret, is incredibly broken. We’re in an era–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Those are policy decisions.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –Well, of course, they’re policy decisions, but they’re also logistical and implementation decisions. If you look at where we are with the rise of artificial intelligence, with the rise of drone technology and drone warfare, we have to really, top to bottom, change the way that we fund the procurement of weapons, the way that we arm our troops. This is a major period of disruption, and we think Pete Hegseth is the guy to lead the job. Now there’s another element to this Margaret too, which is we believe that military morale, at least until the election of President Trump, was historically low. You had the Army missing recruitment goals by tens of thousands of soldiers, and already recruitment is starting to pick up because Pete Hegseth is fundamentally a war fighter’s leader at the Department of Defense. He is a guy who sees, not through the perspective of the generals or the bureaucrats, he looks at things through the perspective of the men and women that we send off to fight in our wars.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about other nominees. Both the Wall Street Journal and the National Review, conservative publications, as you know, have been critical of Tulsi Gabbard. The Review called her “an atrocious nominee who deserves to be defeated.” They compared her defense of Edward Snowden, the fugitive to- who stole U.S. secrets, to an attorney general who thinks the mob gets a bad rap. Her refusal to accept U.S. intelligence findings that Assad gassed his own people, they said was “like a nominee for OMB Director not being able to count.” Does any of this give you pause putting her in charge of the U.S. intelligence community? Yes or no?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: No, Margaret look, these are publications that attacked Donald J. Trump obsessively, but those publications don’t determine who the president is, the American people do– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –And ultimately supported him.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –and Donald J. Trump is the person who determines who his cabinet is, not these publications that I think, frankly, have lost relevance. Here’s– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: The Senate will–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Here’s Tulsi Gabbard’s–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –ultimately decide. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, the Senate will provide advice and consent, as is its constitutional obligation, but I feel confident that Tulsi Gabbard will ultimately get through. Two things that are important to know about Tulsi. First of all, she is a career military servant who’s had a classification at the highest levels for nearly two decades. She has impeccable character, impeccable record of service, and she also is a person who I think is going to bring some trust back to the intelligence services. The bureaucrats at our intelligence services have gotten completely out of control. They’ve been part of the weaponization of our political system, the weaponization of our justice system. We need to have good intelligence services who keep us safe, but part of that is restoring trust in those services, and we think Tulsi is the right person to do it. That’s why the president– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: She doesn’t trust those intelligence services.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: She recognizes the bureaucrats have gotten out of control, and we need somebody there who’s going to rein them in and return those services to their core mission of identifying information that’s going to keep us safe.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: A lot has happened in the past week. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Yes, it has. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: You campaigned on lowering prices for consumers. We’ve seen all of these executive orders. Which one lowers prices?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, first of all, we have done a lot, and there have been a number of executive orders that have caused, already, jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices. More capital investment, more job creation in our economy, is one of the things that’s going to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need. If you look at our slate of executive orders–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: So, grocery prices aren’t going to come down?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: No, Margaret, prices are going to come down, but it’s going to take a little bit of time, right? The president has been president for all of five days. I think that in those five days, he’s accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years. It’s been an incredible breakneck pace of activity. We’re going to work with Congress. We’re of course going to have more executive orders, and we’re going to try- the way that you- you lower prices is that you encourage more capital investment into our country, and you asked specifically what executive order is going to help lower prices. All of the stuff that we’ve done on energy, to explore more energy reserves, to develop more energy resources in the United States of America. One of the main drivers of increased prices under the Biden Administration is that we had a massive increase in energy prices. Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions that are going to lower energy prices, and I do believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store, but it’s going to take a little bit of time. Rome wasn’t built in a day–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE –and while we’ve done a whole lot, we can’t undo all of the damage of Joe Biden’s presidency in four days–  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, there were a lot of things that contributed to higher energy prices and there was record oil and gas production–  

    (CROSSTALK)

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE:  –Yes, Joe Biden did many– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –But the price of eggs– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –many terrible things–   

    MARGARET BRENNAN: — the things that people see–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –to lead to an increase in prices. I agree, Margaret.  

    (END CROSSTALK) 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: No, but all the things you experience at the grocery store are what people touch and feel. That’s what- you were talking about bacon on the campaign trail. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Of course, of course.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Those things- when do consumers actually get to touch and feel a difference in their lives? 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, but Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store? It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel. If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon is going to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon? Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices for consumers, and that is what we’re trying to fight for.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the flurry of executive orders, most of them weren’t about the economy. Many of them– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Many of them were, though, Margaret. We had- I think we’ve taken over– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –You had a promise of tariffs by February 1. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –We’ve taken over 200 executive actions, some executive orders, other executive actions. Again, this is in less than a week, and a lot of them were focused on the economy, bringing investment into our country and lowering energy prices. We’ve also focused on safety, restoring public safety, ending weaponization of the Department of Justice. We’ve done a lot, and I think the president is to be commended for actually coming in and doing something with this incredible mandate the American people gave him. He’s not sitting in the Oval Office doing nothing. He’s doing the American people’s business, and I think they’re going to see a lot of good effects from it.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, a lot of these announcements have yet to take effect. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Sure. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: The president did say he wants to do something with an executive order in relation to federal emergency response. He said he may reform or eliminate FEMA instead of sending emergency responders, he may start to send a percentage of money to states to take care of themselves. But you know, FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Oh, Margaret, I– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –and in their arsenal, and– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –I wish that they–  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: — how will states who are- who are lower income states, the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas, be able to do this for themselves without federal help? 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, the president, to be clear, is not saying we’re going to leave anybody behind. He’s saying that in- the way that we administer these resources, some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level, we’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –But these are the first responders– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –Let’s be honest, Margaret. You talk about the expertise from FEMA. FEMA in North Carolina, in California, in Florida with some of the hurricanes, has often been a disaster. And it’s not because we don’t have good people at FEMA. It’s because bureaucratic red tape and garbage prevents the rapid deployment of resources to people who need it the most. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: But the states are now going to have to do this themselves? 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: The president is trying to encourage us to reform the way that we deliver emergency response in a way that gets resources to people who need it– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –So don’t take him literally, is what you’re saying?  

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: No- we should take the president at his word that FEMA needs desperate reform, because it does. Margaret, when I went to North Carolina as VP-elect, but before we were sworn in, people would talk about how FEMA would get resources, food, medicine, water, to a warehouse, but then would have no plan to get it from the warehouse to the people in the mountains who were literally starving and thirsting to death. We can do so much better, and under Donald Trump’s leadership, we will.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: But they work with the state and local officials.

    (CROSSTALK)

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: They often don’t work well enough–  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –So now– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –And again, that’s not because– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –that’s going to be on the state and local officials?– 

    (END CROSSTALK)

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –They- no- the FEMA management officials, don’t work well enough with state and local officials to get resources to the people who need it. We should expect- and this is, I think, one of the fundamental premises of President Trump’s leadership. The American people should expect more of their government. When there’s a terrible disaster, they should expect food, medicine and water to get to the people who need it. When there’s a terrible fire in California, the fire hydrants ought to actually turn on. I am sick of the American people having such low expectations for their government. They should demand more of us, because it’s the greatest country in the world, and that’s what Donald Trump’s leadership promises to bring back.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: So still count on the federal government, but watch that space. Let me ask you about another area that you campaigned on quite a lot, and there was a flurry of activity on. And that has to do with immigration. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Sure. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week condemned some of the executive orders signed by President Trump, specifically those allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter churches and to enter schools. Do you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service, at a school?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, let me, let me address this. Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they’re an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you have to go and get that person to protect the public safety. That’s not unique to immigration. But let me just address the- this particular issue, Margaret. Because as a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement. And I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We’re going to enforce immigration law. We’re going to protect the American people. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Donald Trump promised to do that. And I believe the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border of Joe Biden–  

    (CROSSTALK)

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –So you- you personally support– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Let them talk about–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –them going into–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –people like Laken Riley–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –schools and churches?   

    (END CROSSTALK)

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –who are brutally murdered. I support us doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether they’re illegal immigrants or anybody else, in a way that keeps us safe. Let me ask this question, Margaret– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: But, but the– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –let’s separate the immigration issue. If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course I want law enforcement– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Of course.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –to go and get that person out. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Of course. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: So then what’s the point of the question?  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: You changed the regulation this week, that’s the point of the question. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Exactly, to– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Giving the authority to go into churches– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –Yes, exactly–  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –and go into schools–  

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere, to protect Americans–  

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –But that also has a knock on effect- a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: I- I desperately hope it has a chilling effect– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –In the churches–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –on illegal immigrants coming into our country. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: You think the US Conference of Catholics Bishops is- are actively hiding criminals from law enforcement?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for, and I hope, again, as a devout Catholic, that they’ll do better.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: There are five legal challenges already to one of the other immigration actions, the order on birthright citizenship. A federal judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, who I think you’d agree, has some conservative credentials–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –Sure– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –paused the order to end birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” How do you reconcile this challenge to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: So, I obviously disagree with that judge and these things- some of them will be litigated. That’s the nature of our constitutional system. But here’s the basic idea of President Trump’s view on this. If you are a lawful permanent resident or a legal immigrant who plans to stay, your children, of course, should become American citizens. But let’s say you’re the child of an ambassador, you don’t become– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –but that’s not part of it. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, that’s an important principle–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –there’s already a carveout having to do with kids of diplomats. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: But we’re saying that that carve out should apply to anybody who doesn’t plan to stay here. If you come here on vacation and you have a baby in an American hospital, that baby doesn’t become an American citizen. If you’re an illegal alien and you come here temporarily, hopefully, your child does not become an ille- American citizen by virtue of just having been born on American soil. It’s a very basic principle in American immigration law, that if you want to become an American citizen, and you’ve done it the right way, and the American people in their collective wisdom have welcomed you into our national community, then you become a citizen. But temporary residents, people who come in here, whether legally or illegally, and don’t plan to stay, their children shouldn’t become American citizens. I don’t know any country that does that, or why we would be different.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, this is a country founded by immigrants. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, this is a country founded by–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –This is a unique country. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants, doesn’t mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary visitors- their children will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship. America should actually look out for the interests of our citizens first, and that means, again, if you’re here permanently and lawfully, your kid becomes an American citizen. If you’re not here permanently, if you’re not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –and don’t plan to be, why would we make those people’s children American citizens permanently? 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about refugee admissions, which were just suspended by the president. That has nothing to do with the U.S. border. Refugee screening takes 18 to 24 months to go through. They are heavily vetted. Left literally at the airport this week were thousands of Afghans who- some of whom had worked with the United States government and were promised to come here. When you talked to us in August, you said, “I don’t think we should abandon anybody who’s been properly vetted and helped us.” Do you stand by that?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE:  Well, Margaret, I don’t agree that all these immigrants, or all these refugees, have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during the campaign if you may remember. So clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –no, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline- Afghan refugees. Do you stand by it–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –but my primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –So, no.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. It’s not good–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: These people are vetted. These people are vetted–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago? He was allegedly properly vetted, and many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he wasn’t. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah. The–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: I don’t want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted, and because I don’t want it for my kids, I’m not going to force any other American citizens kids to do that either.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: No. And that was a very particular case. It wasn’t clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here, but– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: I don’t really care, Margaret. I don’t want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Anyway. I need to move on to something, because I know we’re running out of time here. Two weeks ago, you were on Fox News, and you said, “if you protested peacefully on January 6 and had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Did you counsel the president against these blanket pardons for 1,500 people– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, Margaret, I noticed that–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –including those who committed violence?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Margaret, I noticed that you cut off the thing that I said immediately after that. The full quote is that, of course, there are gray areas. And here’s the nature of the gray area. Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice denied constitutional protections in the prosecutions. There were double standards in how sentences were applied to the J6 protesters versus other groups. What the president said consistently on the campaign–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Case by case basis.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –is that he was going to look at a case by case basis–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: This is blanket.

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –and that’s exactly what we did. We looked at 1,600 cases. And the thing that came out of it, Margaret, is that there was a massive denial of due process of liberty, and a lot of people were denied their constitutional rights. The president believes that. I believe that, and I think he made the right decision.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Daniel Rodriguez used an electro sho- shock weapon against a policeman who was dragged out of the defensive line by plunging it into the officer’s neck. He was in prison, sentenced to 12 years, 7 months. He got a pardon. Ronald McAbee hit a cop while wearing reinforced brass knuckle gloves, and he held one down on the ground as other rioters assailed the officer for over 20 seconds, causing a concussion. If you stand with law enforcement, how can you call these people unjustly imprisoned? 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Margaret, you’re separating- there’s an important issue here. There’s what the people actually did on January the 6th, and we’re not saying that everybody did everything perfectly. And then what did Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice do in unjustly prosecuting well over a thousand Americans in a way that was politically motivated–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Is violence like that against a police officer ever justified? 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Violence against a police officer is not justified. But that doesn’t mean that you should have Merrick Garland’s weaponized Department of Justice expose you to incredibly unfair process, to denial of constitutional rights, and frankly, to a double standard that was not applied to many people, including, of course, the Black Lives Ma- Matter rioters who killed over two dozen people and never had the weight of a weaponized Department of Justice come against them. The pardon power is not just for people who are angels or people who are perfect. And of course, we love our law enforcement and want people to be peaceful, with everybody, but especially with our good cops. That’s a separate issue from what Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice did. We rectified a wrong, and I stand by it. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m being told we’re out of time, but I want to quickly ask you–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Sure, please.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –the richest men in the world were at that Capitol on Inauguration Day. Heads of Amazon, Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. In August you told us Google and Facebook are too big, “we ought to take the Teddy Roosevelt approach. Break ’em up. Don’t let them control what people are allowed to say.” They’ve now donated to the Trump inauguration. Are you still going to break up big tech?

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: So, you know who else was at the inauguration was my mom, and a lot of people who just supported the president and fought every single day to get- get his election. And to make it–

    (CROSSTALK)

    MARGARET BRENNAN: They did $1 million each– 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –and to make it- and to make it possible– 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –to the inauguration. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE:  –and there were a lot of people who didn’t give a million dollars to the inauguration who were on that–

    MARGARET BRENNAN: They got pretty good seating.

    (END CROSSTALK)

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: –who were on that stage, Margaret. They didn’t have as good of seating as my mom and a lot of other people who were there to support us. But look, we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power, and there are two ways they can go about this. They can either respect America’s- Americans’ constitutional rights, they can stop engaging in censorship, and if they don’t, you can be absolutely sure that Donald Trump’s leadership is not going to look too kindly on them.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: So they’re still on notice. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: They’re very much on notice. 

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Vice President JD Vance, thank you–

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Thank you, Margaret.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: –for speaking to us after your first week on the job. 

    VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Good to see you.



    Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 26, 2025

    On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance joined Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” to discuss the latest developments in the administration’s agenda and address pressing issues facing the country. Here is a transcript of their conversation:

    Margaret Brennan: Good morning, Vice President Vance. Thank you for joining us today.

    Vice President Vance: Good morning, Margaret. It’s a pleasure to be here.

    Margaret Brennan: Let’s start with the ongoing situation in Eastern Europe. How is the administration responding to the escalating tensions in the region?

    Vice President Vance: The administration is closely monitoring the situation in Eastern Europe and working alongside our allies to ensure stability and security in the region. We are committed to upholding our commitments to NATO and standing up to any threats to global peace and security.

    Margaret Brennan: Turning to domestic issues, the economy has been a major focus for the administration. What steps are being taken to address inflation and ensure economic growth?

    Vice President Vance: The administration is taking a multi-faceted approach to addressing inflation and boosting economic growth. We are investing in infrastructure, supporting small businesses, and implementing targeted policies to address the root causes of inflation. Our goal is to create a strong and resilient economy that benefits all Americans.

    Margaret Brennan: One of the administration’s key priorities is healthcare reform. Can you provide an update on the progress being made in this area?

    Vice President Vance: Healthcare reform is a top priority for the administration, and we are working to expand access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans. We are exploring innovative solutions to lower healthcare costs, improve outcomes, and ensure that no one is left behind. We are committed to building a healthcare system that works for everyone.

    Margaret Brennan: Thank you, Vice President Vance, for sharing your insights with us today.

    Vice President Vance: Thank you, Margaret. It was a pleasure to be here.

    The conversation between Vice President JD Vance and Margaret Brennan touched on a range of important issues, from foreign policy to economic growth and healthcare reform. The administration’s commitment to addressing these challenges was evident throughout the discussion, highlighting the administration’s dedication to serving the American people.

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  • Vance to Appear on ‘Face the Nation’ as Trump’s Cabinet Takes Shape: Live Updates


    A suggestion by President Trump to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and ask Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians raised new questions on Sunday about United States policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and two of its most important allies in the Middle East.

    Mr. Trump’s comments appeared to echo the wishes of the Israeli far right that Palestinians be encouraged to leave Gaza — an idea that goes to the heart of Palestinian fears that they will be driven from their remaining homelands.

    “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Mr. Trump said of Gaza on Saturday. “I don’t know. Something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now.”

    Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had spoken to King Abdullah II of Jordan about the issue, saying, “I said to him, ‘I’d love for you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess.’” He added that he would also like Egypt to take in more Palestinians and that he would speak to the country’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, about the issue.

    He said that Palestinians could be in Jordan and Egypt “temporarily, or could be long-term.”

    It was unclear from Mr. Trump’s comments if he was suggesting that all of the people in Gaza leave. The enclave has a population of about two million.

    The suggestion by Mr. Trump was rejected on Sunday by Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza.

    “The Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have endured death and destruction over 15 months in one of humanity’s greatest crimes of the 21st century, simply to stay on their land and homeland,” said Basem Naim, a member of the Hamas political bureau, referring to the war that started with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “Therefore, they will not accept any proposals or solutions, even if seemingly well-intentioned under the guise of reconstruction, as proposed by U.S. President Trump.”

    But the idea appeared to be welcomed by two hard-line Israeli politicians.

    Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a statement on X on Sunday that appeared to refer to Mr. Trump’s comments, although he did not mention the U.S. president.

    “After 76 years in which most of the population of Gaza was held by force under harsh conditions to maintain the ambition to destroy the State of Israel, the idea of ​​helping them find other places to start a new, good life is a great idea,” he said. “After years of sanctifying terror, they will be able to establish a new, good life elsewhere.”

    Mr. Smotrich has long advocated for helping Gazans who want to leave to depart and for the Israeli military to remain in the enclave in order to pave the way for eventual Jewish settlement there.

    Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right former minister who resigned from the government over the Gaza cease-fire deal but said he would return if the fighting resumed, said on X, “Congratulations to US President Trump on the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt.”

    Millions of Palestinian refugees are already living in camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, while others now live in other Arab countries — including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — and around the world. But Palestinians and their Arab allies have long rejected any further resettlement outside Palestinian territories, saying that forcing Palestinians to leave would mean erasing any hope of a future Palestinian state. Without land, they say, there is no country.

    Egyptian fears that Palestinians moving en masse into Egypt could threaten the country’s security also make it unlikely that it will consent to any such arrangement. Jordan also opposes forced resettlement of Palestinians. Neither country had publicly responded to Mr. Trump’s suggestion by early Sunday afternoon.

    Early in the war, Egypt became so concerned about the prospect of any move that would send Gazans spilling into its territory that it warned Israel that it was jeopardizing the decades-old Israel-Egypt peace treaty, an anchor of Middle East stability since 1979.

    President Trump said he had spoken to King Abdullah II of Jordan about taking more Palestinians.Credit…Yiannis Kourtoglou/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

    Mr. Trump made his remarks about Gaza on an evening flight after a rally in Las Vegas. It is unclear whether they signal a change in U.S. policy toward Palestinians.

    Under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other recent presidents other than Mr. Trump, the United States officially supported establishing a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one, criticized Israeli extremist attempts at seizing more Palestinian land by building settlements on it and assured Egypt that it would not be forced to take in more Palestinians.

    But with Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, all of the assumptions that had undergirded American relationships in the Middle East may now be upended.

    Egypt and Jordan are both major U.S. partners in the region, and successive U.S. administrations have regarded their stability as crucial to that of the wider Middle East. They both receive significant U.S. funding, with Egypt the second-largest recipient of foreign aid after Israel.

    The Trump administration issued a memo on Friday suddenly freezing all foreign aid for a 90-day reassessment period, but laid out two major exceptions: weapons support to Israel and Egypt. It is unclear if Mr. Trump would try to use the military aid that Egypt receives as leverage to try to force it to accept more Palestinian refugees.

    The fear of being driven from Gaza runs especially deep among Palestinians, who reject it as a replay of what they call the Nakba — or “catastrophe” in Arabic — the mass displacement of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 during the war surrounding Israel’s creation as a state. Many Palestinians still yearn to return eventually to their pre-1948 homes, even if they now sit on Israeli territory.

    Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are trying to return to their homes as the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel enters a second week. It is only the second pause in fighting between the two since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas led an attack on Israel that killed more than 1,200 Israelis. Since then, Israel’s military has killed at least 46,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. It has also destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in Gaza and killed many of Hamas’s leaders.

    Most of the two million Palestinians in Gaza have had to flee their homes at least once. And though aid in recent days has increased, the humanitarian situation remains dire, with water, food and medicine running low and few working hospitals left.

    Andrés R. Martínez and Isabel Kershner contributed reporting.



    Exciting news as Vance is set to make an appearance on ‘Face the Nation’ as Trump’s Cabinet takes shape! Stay tuned for live updates on this developing story. #Vance #FacetheNation #TrumpCabinet

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  • Vice President Vance says US intelligence bureaucrats are ‘out of control’


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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President JD Vance said bureaucrats at U.S. intelligence services were “out of control” and he defended Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head those services, as the right person for the job.

    “The bureaucrats at our intelligence services have gotten completely out of control,” Vance said in an interview with the CBS “Face the Nation” program broadcast Sunday. “They’ve been part of the weaponization of our political system, the weaponization of our justice system.

    “We need to have good intelligence services who keep us safe, but part of that is restoring trust in those services, and we think Tulsi is the right person to do it.”

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    Gabbard’s selection in November to be director of national intelligence sent shock waves through the national security establishment, adding to concerns that the intelligence community would become increasingly politicised.

    The former Democratic congresswoman lacks significant intelligence experience and in the past had been critical of Trump. Her supporters say she has a healthy skepticism about foreign U.S. military involvement, in keeping with the America First policies of Trump.

    Asked about the criticism of Gabbard, even from among conservative circles, Vance said he was confident Gabbard would be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Senate intelligence committee has scheduled a Jan. 30 hearing on her nomination.

    “Two things that are important to know about Tulsi. First of all, she is a career military servant who’s had a classification at the highest levels for nearly two decades,” Vance said. “She has impeccable character, impeccable record of service, and she also is a person who I think is going to bring some trust back to the intelligence services.”

    (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Hugh Lawson)



    Vice President Vance Blasts US Intelligence Bureaucrats as ‘Out of Control’

    In a fiery speech delivered today, Vice President Vance criticized the actions of US intelligence bureaucrats, accusing them of being “out of control” and overstepping their boundaries.

    Vance pointed to recent reports of surveillance abuses and leaks of classified information as evidence of a growing problem within the intelligence community. He warned that such behavior undermines national security and erodes public trust in government institutions.

    The Vice President called for greater oversight and accountability measures to rein in the actions of intelligence bureaucrats and ensure that they are operating within the bounds of the law.

    “We cannot allow a few rogue individuals to jeopardize the safety and security of our nation,” Vance declared. “It is imperative that we hold these bureaucrats accountable for their actions and restore faith in our intelligence agencies.”

    The Vice President’s comments have sparked a debate among lawmakers and experts on the proper role of intelligence agencies in a democratic society. Some argue that strong surveillance measures are necessary to protect the country from threats, while others caution against unchecked power and potential abuses.

    As the debate continues, Vice President Vance’s words serve as a reminder of the importance of maintaining a balance between security and civil liberties in the fight against terrorism and other threats to national security.

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  • ‘Is Usha Vance hotter than Jackie O?’ JFK’s grandson’s bizarre X poll sparks uproar


    'Is Usha Vance hotter than Jackie O?' JFK's grandson's bizarre X poll sparks uproar

    Jack Schlossberg, grandson of the late President John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, found himself at the centre of controversy on Monday after a series of peculiar tweets during President Donald Trump‘s inauguration ceremony.
    The 32-year-old political correspondent took to X to post a question comparing Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, to his own grandmother, the iconic Jackie Kennedy.
    “True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O?” Schlossberg asked his followers, drawing an immediate backlash.

    One user playfully responded, suggesting that both women were “very foxy ladies.” Schlossberg replied, “Really appreciate this take thanks Sam,” but his follow-up tweet escalated the situation further.
    “I called my grandmother hot … have I totally lost it? Jesus … this kid will do anything for attention. Your grandfather would be ashamed. Seriously. Time to get a job,” Schlossberg wrote, referring to himself in third person.
    The tweets left many of Schlossberg’s followers concerned. “Gonna be honest man, I think most people don’t do hotness rankers involving their grandmas,” one user commented.

    Another wrote, “It’s not too late to delete this,” while others scolded Schlossberg for the inappropriate remarks. “You consider your grandma a ‘hottie’?” one critic asked, while another accused him of being “desperate for engagement.”

    Several users urged the Harvard graduate to “seek help” and reconsider his approach to public discourse.





    Recently, JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, sparked controversy with a bizarre poll comparing his grandmother, Jackie O, to Usha Vance. The poll, which asked followers to vote on who they thought was hotter, quickly drew criticism for its insensitive and disrespectful nature.

    Many were outraged at the comparison, pointing out that Jackie O was a beloved and iconic figure who should not be reduced to a superficial beauty contest. Others questioned the motives behind Schlossberg’s poll and called for him to apologize for his insensitive remarks.

    Ultimately, the poll was taken down and Schlossberg issued a statement apologizing for any offense caused. However, the incident serves as a reminder of the importance of respecting the legacies of historical figures and not reducing them to mere objects of comparison.

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  • JFK’s grandson asks whether Usha Vance is ‘way hotter’ than his grandma Jackie, netizens ask him to ‘seek help’


    Jan 21, 2025 10:54 AM IST

    John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, took to X to question whether JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, was “hotter” than his grandmother Jackie Kennedy.

    John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, took to X to question whether JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, was “hotter” than his grandmother Jackie Kennedy. “True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O?” the political correspondent wrote.

    JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg (pictured) asks whether Usha Vance is ‘way hotter’ than his grandma Jackie (jackuno/Instagram)

    Many took to the comment section to remind him he was talking about his grandmother. “literally your grandmother,” one user wrote, while another said, “Gonna be honest man, I think most people don’t do hotness rankers involving their grandmas”. “that’s your grandmother!!!!” said one user. Another wrote, “Kennedys have always gotten away with day drinking in the past, but this points out why it’s a bad idea.” “Are you that desperate for engagement?” another user said.

    “You’re talking about your grandmother like this?” one user wrote, while another said, “I think something is wrong with you”. “It’s sad state when a member of the Kennedy family is engagement farming,” said one user. Another wrote, “The Kennedy family is obviously already drunk today. Isn’t Jackie O your grandma?”

    ‘Brother seek help’

    In a follow-up post, Schlossberg calls himself a “literal pervert” for calling his grandmother hot. “I’m a literal pervert. I called my grandmother hot… have I totally lost it ? Jesus … this kid will do anything for attention. Your grandfather would be ashamed. Seriously. Time to get a job,” he wrote on X.

    X users asked him to seek therapy in the comment section. “Brother seek help,” one user wrote. “Have you tried therapy sessions,” another said.

    Schlossberg is the son of politician Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. A Harvard graduate, he is the only grandson of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the late JFK.

    Schlossberg was appointed Vogue’s political correspondent to cover the 2024 presidential election in July 2024. “I am inspired by my family’s legacy of public service. I take that very seriously and I want to contribute in my own way,” he told Vogue at the time. “I have big dreams, but I also know that I’m trying to make a positive impact today.”

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    Recently, JFK’s grandson made a controversial statement comparing his grandmother, Jackie Kennedy, to Usha Vance, sparking outrage among netizens. The young Kennedy was quoted as asking whether Vance was “way hotter” than his iconic grandmother.

    Many were quick to condemn the statement, calling it inappropriate and disrespectful to Jackie Kennedy’s memory. Some even went as far as to suggest that the young Kennedy should seek help for making such a crass comparison.

    It is important to remember that Jackie Kennedy was a beloved figure in American history, known for her grace, intelligence, and style. Comparing her to someone else in terms of physical attractiveness is not only shallow but also diminishes her legacy.

    Let us remember Jackie Kennedy for the extraordinary woman she was and not reduce her to a mere object of comparison. And let us hope that JFK’s grandson learns from this misstep and shows more respect in the future.

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  • JFK’s grandson baffles followers asking if Usha Vance is ‘way hotter’ than his grandmother Jackie O


    John F Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg shocked his X/Twitter followers when he asked an unexpected question about his grandmother Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis’s looks.

    Yesterday (January 20), during President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the 32-year-old, born John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, wrote: “True or False? Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O.”

    The post, which has now garnered over 5.6 million views, drew immediate backlash as numerous people reminded the Vogue political correspondent: “That’s your grandmother!!!!”

    Usha Vance (left) and Jackie Kennedy (right) (Getty)

    Usha Vance (left) and Jackie Kennedy (right) (Getty)

    “Gonna be honest man, I think most people don’t do hotness rankers involving their grandmas,” one person commented, while another asked: “Are you that desperate for engagement?”

    “Jack NOOO this may be taking the trolling too far,” a third commented.

    “If you have a therapist, mention this at the next session,” wrote another.

    Jack Schlossberg says Usha Vance is ‘way hotter’ than Jackie Kennedy (X/@JBKSchlossberg)

    Jack Schlossberg says Usha Vance is ‘way hotter’ than Jackie Kennedy (X/@JBKSchlossberg)

    Schlossberg’s tweet spawned several memes from short clips of Debra Jo Rupp in That 70s Show to a video of a man on the subway screaming: “Police! Help! Police!”

    One person shares meme of Debra Jo Rupp on ‘That 70s Show’ in response to Schlossberg (X/@Brazil201)

    One person shares meme of Debra Jo Rupp on ‘That 70s Show’ in response to Schlossberg (X/@Brazil201)

    Others, meanwhile, answered the question more honestly: “I would say Usha Vance is a little hotter than Jackie, but that’s just personal preference and not a commentary on either woman’s moral character or general vibe. I think we can both agree that they are two *very* foxy ladies, am I right Jack, my man???””

    Schlossberg replied: “Really appreciate this take thanks Sam.”

    He later followed up to his own tweet, writing: “I’m a literal pervert. I called my grandmother hot… have I totally lost it ? Jesus … this kid will do anything for attention. Your grandfather would be ashamed. Seriously. Time to get a job.”

    For the inaugural swearing-in ceremony on Monday, Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance, seemed to play upon former First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s iconic silhouette and dignified use of color in a bubblegum, belted pink overcoat and a matching neck scarf.

    Usha Vance (far left), JD Vance (inner left), Donald Trump (inner right), and Melania Trump (far right) (Getty Images)

    Usha Vance (far left), JD Vance (inner left), Donald Trump (inner right), and Melania Trump (far right) (Getty Images)

    Vance’s bright jacket cut across a sea of dullness on the inaugural stage yesterday, especially to FLOTUS Melania Trump, who wore a black and white ensemble by Adam Lippes.

    In the past, incoming first ladies have donned light-hued jackets akin to Vance’s. Indeed, Melania chose to forego tradition, conservatively covering up in the navy blue garment and a wide-brimmed hat concealing the top half of her face, making it difficult to read her expressions.

    Online, people compared her Eric Javits head accessory to cartoon villains and evil film characters such as the Hamburglar and Jim Carrey’s green-faced persona in The Mask.

    “Why the hell does Melania Trump look like the Hamburglar?” one person asked on X, while another said: “And now I will never unsee it. Thank you.”



    In a recent Instagram post, JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has left followers scratching their heads with a controversial question. In a selfie posted to his account, Schlossberg is seen posing next to Usha Vance, sparking speculation about the nature of their relationship.

    But it wasn’t the photo itself that caused a stir, it was the caption that accompanied it. In the caption, Schlossberg asked his followers if they thought Vance was “way hotter” than his iconic grandmother, Jackie O. The comparison between Vance, a relatively unknown figure, and the beloved former First Lady has raised eyebrows and led to some heated debates in the comments section.

    Some fans were quick to defend Jackie O, praising her timeless beauty and elegance. Others were more forgiving of Schlossberg’s question, chalking it up to his youthful exuberance and sense of humor. Regardless, the post has certainly sparked conversation and left many wondering about the intentions behind Schlossberg’s provocative question.

    As of now, Schlossberg has not clarified his intentions or addressed the controversy surrounding his post. It remains to be seen whether he will provide any further explanation or if this will simply be chalked up as a moment of social media mischief. Stay tuned for updates on this unfolding story.

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