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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

May 5, 2026 · The White House · 0:52:27

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks on the floor of a manufacturing shop in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 5, 2026, introduced by Congressman Zach Nunn. He thanked Attorney General Brenna Bird and Governor Kim Reynolds, and framed the visit around Iowa’s farmers and second-shift manufacturing workers: “what’s made in places like Iowa, what’s grown in places like Iowa, not only feed and fuel the world, they’re a reflection of our next generation.”

Vance said the shop’s own workers told him the tax cuts “meant that their business had a lot more money that they could give to workers and higher bonuses and higher salaries, that they could hire more people, that they could expand and create new jobs that didn’t exist before.” On housing, he said rents had fallen for eight straight months for the first time in over five years, bringing young buyers closer to “their slice of the American dream.”

Why it matters

The Des Moines stop is the Vice President carrying the economic message into a farm-and-manufacturing state in his own voice — tax cuts translated into shop-floor bonuses, and the rent streak as the housing proof point — on the Economy, Tariffs & Trade hub.

Scoreboard watch

The claims as stated by the Vice President — eight consecutive months of falling rents, and tax-cut-funded bonuses and hiring at the host business — are recorded here as the stated baseline.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa,” The White House, May 5, 2026 (official upload, embedded above; location given as Des Moines, IA in the official description). All figures and characterizations as stated by Vice President Vance and the speakers at the event.