
On December 16 in Pennsylvania, Vice President JD Vance tried to spin rising unemployment as a sign of economic strength. But unknowingly, he walked straight into an argument that admits joblessness may be worse than the headline number suggests.
At a Uline warehouse in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley on Tuesday, JD Vance delivered the Trump administration’s familiar economic victory lap. He praised job creation, wage growth, and investment, and blamed Joe Biden for everything that went wrong before January. The VP even graded the current economy an “A+++” under Donald Trump, mimicking his words.