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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the American Dynamism Summit, Mar. 18, 2025

March 18, 2025 · The White House · 0:24:14

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance addressed the American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2025 — the technology and venture-capital gathering devoted to companies building in defense, manufacturing, and other hard industries. He told the audience that, as of a couple of months earlier, “you have an administration that’s working with you and facilitating your hard work instead of making it harder to innovate.”

The speech worked through the tension Vance named between populists and techno-optimists. On labor, he argued that “cheap labor became the drug of Western economies”: countries that imported large amounts of cheap labor through their immigration systems, he said, saw productivity stagnate, and “I don’t think that’s a total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct.” On technology, his message was the opposite of caution: “We shouldn’t be afraid of artificial intelligence… we shouldn’t be fearful of productive new technologies. In fact, we should seek to dominate them. That’s certainly what this administration wants to accomplish.” He closed the circle by acknowledging why workers greet new technology with skepticism — when factory jobs go overseas, he said, American workers lose not only financial security but “a profound loss of personal and communal identity.”

Why it matters

The Dynamism address is Vance’s fullest statement of the administration’s attempt to hold two constituencies in one coalition — the tech builders who want open innovation and the industrial workers who have borne its costs — and it puts immigration-driven cheap labor, not technology itself, at the center of his explanation for stagnating productivity.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the American Dynamism Summit” (official upload, embedded above; Washington, D.C.). Remarks as delivered; transcript reviewed in the site’s private research store.