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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday acknowledged that the Trump administration faces growing skepticism over its economic record<\/a>, issuing a plea for patience ahead of what he predicted would be an eventual \u201ceconomic boom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get it and we hear you, and we know that there\u2019s a lot of work to do,\u201d Vance said during a Breitbart News event. \u201cAs much progress as we\u2019ve made, it\u2019s going to take a little time for Americans to feel that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conciliatory tone represented a sharply different approach from the one taken in recent weeks by President Donald Trump, who has continued to insist\u00a0<\/a>that the economy is thriving while dismissing cost-of-living concerns as little more than a Democratic talking point.<\/p>\n

It also underscored the White House\u2019s ongoing efforts to calibrate its messaging on the economy ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections \u2014 and in the aftermath of GOP losses in New Jersey and Virginia<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>earlier this month that voters indicated were driven in large part by deep disappointment with Trump\u2019s domestic agenda.<\/p>\n

Vance during his remarks conceded that Americans remained unhappy over the affordability issues that have weighed on those approval ratings, such as the price of groceries<\/a>. At one point, he went as far as to undercut one of Trump\u2019s key barometers of economic success \u2014 a decline in the price of eggs since January \u2014 by admitting that the food staple is still too expensive for many people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re an American who\u2019s just struggling to get by, you work hard, you pay your taxes, you want your kids to have good opportunities. And then the price of eggs goes from $2 a dozen to $8 a dozen under the Biden administration, and then it goes from $8 a dozen to maybe $6.50 a dozen,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWell, to you that is still a major problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president sought to cast much of the blame for voters\u2019 sour mood on former President Joe Biden, complaining that the prior administration had \u201cput us in a very tough spot.\u201d He also blamed Democrats for any near-term economic fallout from the record-long government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that actually pumped the brakes a little bit on all the economic news that we\u2019re seeing,\u201d Vance said of the shutdown. \u201cThat\u2019s going to cause a little bit of damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president also celebrated a stronger-than-expected September jobs report<\/a> released earlier on Thursday, calling it evidence that Trump\u2019s policies were working.<\/p>\n

Yet he allowed that the Trump administration still has plenty of work to do to convince voters that those policies stand to benefit them, departing from the president\u2019s preferred approach of touting his agenda as an unqualified success.<\/p>\n

At a US-Saudi Investment Forum a day earlier, Trump dismissed the focus on affordability, calling it a \u201cnew word\u201d that Democrats have latched on to since he took office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that we\u2019re going up in is our stock market, okay, we\u2019re bringing prices down,\u201d Trump said, despite the rise in the cost of key products like beef and coffee<\/a> that economists have blamed at least in part on the administration\u2019s tariffs. \u201cBut they came up with a new word that they\u2019re using: affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president in speeches and social media posts since Democrats\u2019 electoral victories earlier this month has also called affordability concerns a \u201ccon job,\u201d urging voters to credit him for falling gasoline prices and an inflation rate that\u2019s come down from its Biden-era peak \u2014 but begun over the last several months to slowly climb once again.<\/p>\n

The White House has floated a range of initiatives aimed at reining in the cost of living despite Trump\u2019s insistence that prices are falling, including rolling back tariffs on hundreds of products and raising the prospect of sending $2,000 checks to Americans at some point next year. Trump is also expected to step up domestic travel<\/a> in the coming months focused on promoting his economic agenda, as aides try to boost voter awareness of the administration\u2019s accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Trump aides are also planning to pitch a new health reform plan<\/a> ahead of the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies amid GOP fears that the party will pay a hefty political price if voters\u2019 health insurance costs skyrocket.<\/p>\n

But the administration has offered few details about what that plan will look like. Though Vance on Thursday claimed the eventual proposal would get bipartisan support, he did not provide specifics.<\/p>\n

The vice president also offered few new strategies for ushering in the booming economy that he said \u201cwe really do believe is coming,\u201d arguing only that the administration needed a bit more time to realize its goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing I\u2019d ask from the American people is to ask for a little bit of patience,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe just gotta keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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