{"id":1056026,"date":"2025-09-17T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056026"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:53:36","slug":"vance-returns-to-michigan-to-spin-trumps-broken-economic-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-michigan-to-spin-trumps-broken-economic-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Returns to Michigan to Spin Trump\u2019s Broken Economic Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JD Vance is back in Michigan today to double down on Donald Trump\u2019s disastrous economic agenda. The last time Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/remarks-the-vice-president-bay-city-michigan\">visited<\/a> the state, he promised a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/03\/14\/jd-vance-bay-city-michigan-vice-president-economy\/82404937007\/\">manufacturing renaissance<\/a>. Instead, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/trumps-trade-war-squeezes-middle-class-manufacturing-employment\/\">manufacturing sector has shrunk<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/MANEMP\">42,000 jobs<\/a> nationally and 1,300 in Michigan alone since Vance\u2019s last visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter promising a manufacturing renaissance, JD Vance has a lot of nerve going back to Michigan to sell his billionaire-first budget. Instead of a \u2018great American comeback,\u2019 Trump and Vance have delivered an economic disaster: Prices are soaring, wages are decreasing, jobs are disappearing, and the manufacturing sector is being gutted. There\u2019s no hiding the truth that Trump\u2019s reckless economic policies are failing working and middle-class families in Michigan. That\u2019s why Democrats are fighting to make the economy work for regular people \u2013 not just billionaires and elites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he was in Michigan in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/remarks-the-vice-president-bay-city-michigan\">Vance bragged<\/a> about how inflation appeared on track to improve \u2014 but since then, under the Trump-Vance administration, inflation has steadily risen and is expected to get even worse. Despite Trump and Vance\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/remarks-the-vice-president-bay-city-michigan\">promises of lower energy costs<\/a> for manufacturers and ratepayers, electricity prices have reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/16\/nx-s1-5502671\/electricity-bill-high-inflation-ai\">all-time high <\/a>since Trump took office. The truth is that Michiganders are being crushed by Trump\u2019s unhinged economic policies.<br><br>Trump\u2019s economy is a disaster all around: The US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/09\/jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-economy.html\">economy is slowing down<\/a> while inflation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/inflation-cpi-report-august-rcna230557\">ticks up<\/a>, and wages continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=1MeN5\">decrease<\/a>. Vance can spin the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gelliottmorris.com\/p\/one-big-unpopular-bill\">unpopular legislation<\/a> in modern history all he wants, but Americans know the truth: Trump\u2019s economy is in free fall and families are paying the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance is back in Michigan today to double down on Donald Trump\u2019s disastrous economic agenda. The last time Vance visited the state, he promised a manufacturing renaissance. Instead, the manufacturing sector has shrunk by 42,000 jobs nationally and 1,300 in Michigan alone since Vance\u2019s last visit. In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vance Returns to Michigan to Spin Trump\u2019s Broken Economic Promises - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-michigan-to-spin-trumps-broken-economic-promises\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-17T13:53:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-michigan-to-spin-trumps-broken-economic-promises\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-michigan-to-spin-trumps-broken-economic-promises\/\",\"name\":\"Vance Returns to Michigan to Spin Trump\u2019s Broken Economic Promises - 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