JD Vance says Trump’s policies have helped raise Americans’ wages by roughly $1.2K per person

WASHINGTON, DC: Vice President JD Vance claimed on Thursday, November 20, that President Donald Trump’s policies have helped raise Americans’ wages by roughly $1,200 per person.

The vice president told Breitbart News’ Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle at a policy event, "Wages continue to way outpace inflation. If you go back to the three years of the Biden administration, the average American worker actually lost about $3,000 in take-home pay."

JD Vance says US is seeing job growth go to native-born American citizens

"In the first 10 months of the Trump economy, we’ve increased take home pay by about $1,200, adjusting for inflation. So that’s a huge, huge thing," JD Vance told the outlet.

He added, "And this is really important … we are seeing the job growth go to native-born American citizens. And what happened under the Biden administration is, to the extent there was any job growth at all."

Vance mentioned that almost all of the net job creation in the US under the Joe Biden administration went to the foreign-born. 

He further said, "The best thing that you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change, and that’s the thing that I’m proudest about."

Interestingly, Vance’s comments came amid economic news for October, as reported on Tuesday, November 18, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

As per the report, average hourly earnings for all employees on private non-farm payrolls rose by 9 cents, or 0.2%, to $36.67 in September. 

Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.8%, the report added. 

Moreover, as per the report, in September, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 8 cents, or 0.3%, to $31.53.

JD Vance believes increased use of tech will help Americans earn more income

JD Vance believes that increased use of robots and automation will help Americans earn more income each day at work. He told Fox News on November 12, "The evidence that I see is that if we really lean into robotics and technology, it’s going to raise everybody’s wages and make everybody better off."

He added, "There really are rules of how you make people more productive, how you create economic growth, of how you make people better off."

"The Democrat model was 'Import low-wage immigrants!' and I really do think that hurt the jobs of our construction workers and hurt the wages of a lot of our blue-collar workers," Vance mentioned. 

He further claimed, "Their idea was that the way that we get more prosperity is to import more and more low-wage servants. And that actually, I think, reduced prosperity because it meant that a lot of our blue-collar workers were struggling."