The vice president is pitching the Trump administration’s signature policy achievement to a skeptical American public.

JD Vance is officially Donald Trump’s right-hand man, but their relationship has long had its tensions. Now, a hushed meeting between Vance and media titan Rupert Murdoch in June 2025 has triggered fresh speculation that Vance may be quietly distancing himself from President Donald Trump.

As Vance visited Ohio to tout the Trump administration’s economic agend a on Monday at a steel mill, a small group of protestors assembled across the street from those gathered, holding a sign that read: “JD protects pedophiles,” in a nod to the president’s association with accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.