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J. D. Vance: “Steve Witkoff...is our special envoy of the Middle East.”

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Podcast Conversation with Vice President J.D. Vance at Kid Rock's Nashville Restaurant

Published June 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:12:19

Like, we're constantly engaging in, Deploy diplomacy. I mean, one of the crazy things, dude, is this guy is a very dear friend of the President's. He's Steve Witkoff...is our special envoy of the Middle East. Steve Witkoff. He's a Jewish guy, very pro Israel. He's done more to try to bring this conflict to a close than anybody. (1:12:19–1:12:21)

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“I think Doge has saved already at least 170, maybe $200 billion.”
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“You've got 21 million people in here illegally.”
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“Americans, we spend 22% of our economy on healthcare. The Europeans average out about 10 or 11%.”
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“My wife, now, because I'm the vice president, she's on the board of the Kennedy center.”
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“On. But on. I mean, like, on both sides, some Confederates, there was some Union.”
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“There's actually, there's a website. I think it's like an American history or Smithsonian. Somebody keeps up a database where you can go in…”
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“And I did that on both sides of my family, mom and dad's side. And it was kind of crazy. How many. How many people with the same name at…”
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“I'm a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. I would have. I would have fought. I would have fought for the Union.”
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“I feel like something happened, like, 10 years ago where every. It's like you have to think that every single person who fought for the…”
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“My wife made this point actually, a few years ago. She was like, if you showed that documentary, maybe not now, but, like, at the height of…”
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“That's actually one of the best things that's happened in the country the last few years is people are just done filtering Themselves…”
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“We're looking into a lot of this [firebombing of cars] as an act of terrorism at the Department of Justice.”
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“Prevents the biggest tax increase in American history.”
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“Taxes are going to go up on everybody in a really big way at the end of 2025, because the old tax law expires at the end of 2025.”
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“We inherited bad inflation from Joe Biden.”
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“No tax on overtime, no tax on tips.”
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“The amount of waste and the amount of just grift in the federal government was off the charts.”
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“So every dollar we were spending humanitarian assistance. 12 cents. Was actually making it to people who needed it.”
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“The House of Representatives actually adopted a rule to where they have to get, I think at least four days to actually read it to, to change…”
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“We're going to cut taxes on tips, we're going to have no taxes on overtime, we're to cut taxes on Social Security.”
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“We're going to secure the border. We're going to build more border wall, we're going to hire more border patrol agents.”
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“We're signing, like, 5,000 new people to work at the border.”
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“If you went through that process for each individual item as a. On a separate bill, it would take over a year to do all these bills.”
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“We've got to do the no tax on Social Security.”
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“The biggest single budgetary item, Theo, in this bill is the money to secure the border.”
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“The bill text was people have had literally weeks to pass it or to read it.”
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“They're in fact going to have to vote on it again before it even becomes law.”
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“The idea is you use, you basically have a federal regulation that prevents like California from having a super progressive set of…”
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“I don't think that's going to make it in the final bill.”
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“I ran for the Ohio Senate race. I won.”
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“The first one, the Senate campaign, cost $45 million.”
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“The second one, presidential campaign, I think that we spent, like, $1.2 billion.”
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“Peter Thiel...he's literally never asked me once for anything.”
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“One of the problems in our system is that people spend so much time raising money.”
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“Sometimes it [fundraising] can have a corrupting influence on the process.”
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“The president did an executive order, I don't know, a couple months ago.”
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“I don't believe that Palantir is collecting any information.”
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“The IRS wouldn't give him information on the person who was stealing his stuff.”
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