In Michigan, Vance says US manufacturing can rebound despite falling markets [Video]

BAY CITY, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance toured a Michigan plastics manufacturing facility on Friday, promoting a promised Trump administration industrial renaissance nationwide even as jitters about rising tariffs and steep drops in consumer confidence and financial markets point to the opposite.

Vance was in Bay City, which was known in the 1800s for thriving sawmills and shipbuilding concerns that have long since closed. Speaking at Vantage Plastics, he vowed, “We started a great American comeback,” and said the Trump administration will “make it easier and more affordable to make things again in the United States.”

But he also repeatedly urged patience before the Trump White House’s economic policies take hold, noting, “This is not always easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight.”

Many Michigan businesses are especially concerned about a growing trade tiff with neighboring Canada that President Donald …