Vice President JD Vance said during a Tuesday interview that President Donald Trump’s administration was pulling out all the stops to reshape the American economy after “40 years of bad policy.”

Vance spoke with Salem radio host and CNN commentator Scott Jennings, and said that while former President Joe Biden had certainly dealt a devastating blow, he wasn’t entirely responsible for the longer-term bad policies that had kept the economy from surging forward.

.@VP: The economy wasn’t just wrecked under Biden, it was wrecked by 40 years of bad policy. If we rely on our OWN workers and ingenuity to make our stuff, we’re more prosperous, more free, much wealthier — and that’s exactly what @POTUS‘s economic policies are leading us to. pic.twitter.com/59IzFELIV9

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 6, 2026

“The economy, in some ways, wasn’t just wrecked under the Biden administration; it was wrecked by 40 years of bad economic policy,” Vance explained. We shipped way too many jobs to China and other countries all over the world, we became less reliant on ourselves and more reliant on foreign countries, and undoing that takes time.”

Vance touted the progress made in just a year since President Trump was sworn in to begin his second term, adding, “If we rely on our own workers and ingenuity to make our stuff, we’re more prosperous, we’re more free, we’re much wealthier as a country, and that’s exactly what the president’s economic policies are leading us to.”

The vice president went on to address several specific issues that had been driving up costs in the United States, beginning with illegal immigration.

“It is not a coincidence that during the worst open border we have ever had under Joe Biden, the cost of an American home doubled,” Vance said, adding, “Now that we’re getting those illegal immigrants out, you see rents have come down for 4 straight months. We want them to keep coming down.”

.@VP: It is not a coincidence that during the worst open border we have ever had under Joe Biden, the cost of an American home doubled… now that we’re getting those illegal immigrants out, you see rents have come down 4 straight months. We want them to keep coming down. pic.twitter.com/WT38Sv2J3x

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 6, 2026

He also addressed the astronomical — and still increasing — health insurance premiums, driven by the unsustainable costs of Obamacare, and said that President Trump had plans to move on that as well.

“The president is sick of Obamacare and how unaffordable it’s made American healthcare, we actually met about this yesterday,” Vance said, adding that other priorities include reducing the cost of housing for American families.

.@VP on Trump admin priorities in 2026: “@POTUS is sick of Obamacare and how unaffordable it’s made American healthcare… We’re very focused on some housing legislation… We really do need to make it harder for foreign countries to take advantage of the American economy.” pic.twitter.com/hYUqRIOgaQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 6, 2026

“We really do need to make it harder for foreign countries to take advantage of the American economy,” he concluded.

Actor Tim Allen recently criticized DEI constraints on television shows, saying sitcoms need to be funny to succeed.

The 72-year-old “Home Improvement” alum made the comments during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast on Monday. 

Allen told Maher he didn’t believe DEI policies should have any bearing on the creative process. 

“My wife says, ‘Why do you keep saying that?’ And I said, ‘Somebody told me I was like the Tom Brady of sitcoms.’ When they asked me to do a third [show], I said, ‘I thought they were kidding,’” the comedian told Maher. “I don’t know whether my generation… because all the people that I know that I would make it with are either dead or not the right gender, you know, they’re all light-skinned European older men. And that doesn’t fit the DEI thing that everybody wanted. They wanted, you know, a potpourri of —”

Maher jumped in, saying one solution was to have “DEI in the cast.”

“I didn’t want to get into that. I didn’t want to patronize people. If you’re going to do a sitcom, it’s just got to be funny. You got to have some drama,” Allen went on.

The podcast host agreed, saying diversity wasn’t the “only virtue.”

“Not everything in America has to look like Angelina Jolie’s Christmas card, you know, sometimes, and it’s always OK in reverse. It’s like if there’s something where it’s just an all-black cast — and good, I’m all for it. I’m not complaining about it,” Maher continued.

The host went on to question CBS’s 2020 goal of increasing BIPOC representation in its writers’ rooms. 

“I thought, what if the show they’re writing is about a polka band in a ski town?” Maher said.

“I love people of color, and I’m so glad that things are better than they used to be for people of color, but you know, it shouldn’t intrude on the creative process to the degree it has in this town,” Maher said. “It has intruded on the creative process. And by the way, lots of people of color agree with that because they want the creative process to be pure, too.”

Allen currently stars in the CBS sitcom “Shifting Gears,” which follows a father trying to reconnect with his adult daughter. Besides appearing on the well-known ‘90s series “Home Improvement,” he also starred in the popular ABC sitcom “Last Man Standing” (2011-2017).