Fox News Host Asks Trump Vp Jd Vance Flat-out ‘can You Rule Out A Recession?’

Fox News host Laura Ingraham flatly asked Vice President JD Vance if he was willing to “rule out a recession” — days after President Donald Trump’s answers to that question touched off a stock market plunge.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over a thousand points Monday and closed at -890 points amid fears fueled by Trump’s repeated refusal to rule out the possibility of an impending recession over the weekend. That slide continued all week as Trump’s trade policies contributed to market unease.

On Thursday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham gave Vance a shot at “reassuring” investors. Vance chose to echo Trump:

INGRAHAM: But you cannot turn on the television without hearing a business executive speak about the tariffs, the kind of whip — whiplash on the tariffs and some of the difficulty they’re having in making long-term investments and projections because of this uncertainty.

VANCE: Sure.

INGRAHAM: What can you do to reassure them that this is all going to settle out?

VANCE: Yeah. Well, first of all, I think the president’s been very clear. He wants to impose tariffs on foreign importers because he wants to bring investment and jobs back to the United States of America.

So what I’d say to those business leaders is I think the president has actually been quite clear about what he wants to accomplish — build more in the United States of America, invest more in the United States of America, raise wages for workers in the United States of America, and you don’t have to pay these tariffs at all.

There is, as the president has said, a recognition that we have to accept which is that, look, Joe Biden left this economy in a disaster. He ran the highest peacetime deficits we’ve ever had in this country. He left us with a significant debt crisis, and the president has come in and said, look, we have to accomplish a lot of things simultaneously.

We have to bring down inflation, which I think we’re making some good progress on. We have to actually ensure critical government services like Social Security in the military function for the American people. And we also have to force businesses to invest more, not overseas, not in Chinese workers, but in American workers.

And I think we’re doing all of those things.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, of course. This is not going to happen overnight, but I think that both businesses and workers are ultimately going to benefit from President Trump’s policies.

INGRAHAM: But can you rule out the possibility — as Reagan faced in his first term in office, coming off a terrible economic calamity for the country — can you rule out a recession, even a temporary one?

VANCE: Well, look, I — I think you — you never can predict the future, but I think the economy, the fundamentals of the economy are actually quite strong right now. And we’ll see how this unfolds, Laura.

But I think that by inducing more businesses to invest in American workers, by reshoring some of those critical supply chains, we are going to make this economy stronger over the long haul, and that is the president’s ultimate goal.

We have to remember, Laura, people were — forget years ago, of course, we had the COVID crisis and — and aside from the public health — the public health element of it, what it should have taught us, Laura, is we can’t rely on communist China to make all the critical stuff. You had hospitals that didn’t have medical supplies. You had businesses, manufacturing businesses that couldn’t get core raw materials because China was shut down.

What the president is doing is changing four years of a failed bipartisan consensus in Washington, D.C. that has sold out American workers and destroyed the underlying economic strength of the United States of America.

We’re going to rebuild it. It’s going to take a little time but we are going to do it.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle.