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Vice President JD Vance: U.S. industrial capacity, not ideology, is central to national security
Summary
At an American Compass event, Vice President JD Vance argued that decades of offshoring have weakened U.S. industrial capacity and left the country vulnerable on supply chains for critical goods, and said rebuilding domestic and diversified global manufacturing must be a long-term priority.
Vice President JD Vance told an American Compass audience that decades of offshoring have undermined U.S. industrial capacity and constrained the country's ability to act on foreign policy.
Vance said the loss of manufacturing and processing capacity creates strategic leverage for rival states and can limit U.S. options in a crisis. "You can never be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed your people, and unless you're able to make the things that your economy needs in order to function, and ultimately to defend yourself," he said.
Vance framed the issue as both economic and geopolitical. He warned that reliance on single-country suppliers for raw materials and…
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