Vice President JD Vance said the first 100 days of the Trump administration were about making changes "very quickly," but the next 100 days will require Congress and international partners to "step up to the plate." (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
"A lot of our energy policies are permitting policies," he continued. "We’re trying to make it easier to build things. Those are things you can change very quickly."
But Vance cautioned that "the next 100 days are going to be a lot of things that don’t change as quickly."
"It’s the big, beautiful bill — the reconciliation bill that we think will lead to permanent tax relief for Americans, but also juice the economy a little bit," he said. "That’s going to be a major focus."
When asked where negotiations stand with regard to Russia and Ukraine, Vance told Fox News Digital, "The first and necessary step of getting the Russia-Ukraine conflict solved is to get each of them to make a peace proposal." (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Vance said "a lot of our European friends who, in public, will say, 'Well, you know, we didn't necessarily agree with the president what he said, or what he's done, or, you know, all parts of his policy.' They will at the same time say he's the only person who could have actually forced a peace proposal out of each side because these guys weren't even talking — not to each other, not to anybody. They were just fighting. That was it.
"So, we've got this first step," Vance added. "We've got the peace proposal out there and issued, and we're going to work very hard over the next 100 days to try to bring these guys together."
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Meanwhile, the vice president will travel Thursday to Huger, South Carolina, for a factory tour at Nucor Steel Berkeley, one of the largest manufacturers of steel in the United States.
"The message tomorrow is really just a pro-American manufacturing message," Vance said, adding he is going to "tie it back to national security."
Vice President-elect JD Vance, left, takes oath as his wife, Usha, watches during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
"We work with industry," Vance continued. "The President has an extremely open door, and so when he is persuaded that he has to pursue a particular policy in an effort to facilitate more American manufacturing, that's what he's going to do, because that's the goal," Vance said. "And I think you're going to see, certainly, that continue over the next 100 days in the same way it has over the first 100 days."
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"So that’s kind of how I think about it — the first 100 days, you can get a lot done with just the president’s signature on a piece of paper," Vance said. "The next 100 days are going to be a lot of things where we need Congress, and in some cases, some of our international partners, to step up to the plate.
"I have great confidence in Congress. I have some confidence in our international partners. We’ll see how it goes."
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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