JD Vance: Young Americans Can’t Afford Homes Because Joe Biden Flooded the Country with Millions of Illegal Aliens
Vice President JD Vance says that mass immigration under former President Joe Biden significantly skyrocketed the cost of rent and home prices.
In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Vance attributed sky-high home prices to record-setting illegal immigration under Biden — noting that flooding the housing market increases prices on Americans, particularly those first-time home-buyers.
“To me [this] is maybe the most important because I care so much about our young people being able to afford a good life, a lot of young people are saying, ‘Housing is way too expensive,’” Vance said:
Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who are taking houses, which ought by right go to American citizens and at the same time, we weren’t building enough new houses to begin with even for the population we have. [Emphasis added]
Vance said the Trump administration is looking to make it easier for home builders to build new homes and make home prices more affordable with fierce interior immigration enforcement.
“What we’re doing is trying to make it easier to build houses, to build factories, and things like that so that people have good jobs,” Vance said. “We’re also getting all of those illegal aliens out of our country and you’re already seeing it starting to pay some dividends.”
Vance also said the key to the nation’s “affordability crisis” is boosting wages for Americans.
“That is where the Trump economy, I think objectively … is just doing better than any economy in 50-60 years,” Vance continued, saying the president wants to “make an economy for people who can afford to buy the things that they need — the best way to do that is good jobs and good wages.”
In September, economists in Denmark published research that found that mass immigration hugely drives up rents and home prices for the local population.
“Our results suggest large and positive impacts of immigration on private rental prices and house prices at the municipal level,” the researchers detail:
More specifically, we find that a one percentage point increase in the local immigration influx over a five-year horizon relative to the local population in the base year 1995 leads to an average increase of approximately 6 percent and 11 percent in private rental prices and house prices at the municipal level, respectively, during the same period.
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The newest study is added to decades of published research, which comes to the same conclusion — mainly that mass immigration does impact rent and home prices.
Last year, Center for Immigration Studies researcher Steven Camarota revealed a similar statistic to Congress, stating that “a 5-percentage-point increase in the recent immigrant share of a metro area’s population is associated with a 12-percent increase in the average U.S.-born household’s rent, relative to their income.”
JD Vance, Trump’s New Running Mate, Once Said Trump Could Be ‘America’s Hitler’
The comment came to wide attention in 2022 during Vance’s Senate campaign.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) isn’t the first Republican to back away from his past criticism of Donald Trump, but his reversal may be the most startling.
In a 2016 private Facebook message to his former Yale Law School roommate, Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin, Vance said Trump could become “America’s Hitler.”
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote.
The comment came to wide attention in 2022 during Vance’s Senate campaign and was one of many critical statements that Trump looked past when he named Vance as his vice presidential running mate on Monday.
“Obviously he’s a sellout, but the bigger deal is he’s angry and vindictive. The perfect fit for Trump’s revenge,” McLaurin said on social media on Monday, shortly after Vance was announced as Trump’s VP pick. “JD’s rise is a triumph for angry jerks everywhere.”
Vance condemned Trump on multiple occasions in 2016 in interviews related to Vance’s bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which made him a go-to commentator on rural America and Trump’s political rise.
He argued that the then-Republican presidential nominee offered empty promises that wouldn’t fix the problems ailing communities like the one in Ohio, where Vance grew up.
“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it,” Vance wrote in a July 2016 piece for The Atlantic.
Vance described himself as a “Never Trump guy” and called Trump an “idiot” in since-deleted tweets from that time. In an August 2016 interview with NPR, he even said he might vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, if he thought Trump might actually win.
“I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” Vance said.
However, when Vance entered politics with his Senate bid in 2021, he took it all back, saying he regretted his past comments.
“I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy,” Vance told Fox News in 2021. “I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.”
That’s all there was to it. The groveling won Vance Trump’s endorsement, which helped him secure a tough Republican primary, and ultimately landed him in the U.S. Senate, where he became one of Trump’s most aggressive supporters in Congress. And now, depending on how this year’s presidential election goes, Vance could very well become Trump’s vice president.
JD Vance Hints At His Plans For 2028
The vice president said he is currently laser focused on making sure Republicans deliver a strong performance in the 2026 midterm elections.
Vice President JD Vance pulled back the curtain on his consideration of a 2028 presidential bid in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Vance admitted he has been thinking about his political future, but made clear his priority is making sure Republicans deliver a strong performance in next year’s elections.
“I would say that I’ve thought about what that moment might look like after the midterm elections, sure. But I also, whenever I think about that, I try to put it out of my head and remind myself the American people elected me to do a job right now, and my job is to do it,” Vance said.
“I really want us to win the midterms because if the Democrats get in power they’re going to try to screw up a lot of the great things the president of the United States has done over the past 10 months,” Vance continued.
Vance added that he has plans to discuss a 2028 White House run with Trump after the November 2026 elections.
“We’re going to do everything we can to win the midterms,” Vance said. “And then after that, I’m going to sit down with the president of United States and talk to him about it. But let’s focus on the now, because we’ve got well over a year to do as much as we can for the American people.”
Trump, who has at times hinted at plans to pursue an unconstitutional third term in office, has also floated both Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential successors.
But Vance, who has previously called Rubio his “best friend in the administration,” claimed there’s no rivalry between them despite speculation about the future.
“If Marco eventually runs for president, then that’s — we can cross that bridge when we come to it,” the vice president said.
‘I’m not sure anyone would run against those two’: How Vance and Rubio came out on top
Marco Rubio and JD Vance have become each other’s primary sounding boards in the West Wing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance have become each other’s primary sounding boards in the West Wing as the pair work together to help shape and execute President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, according to five people close to the two top officials.
Rubio — the nation’s top diplomat and Trump’s national security adviser — spends most of his time not at the State Department but inside the White House, where he makes use of the NSA office, according to a person close to the secretary, granted anonymity to discuss his schedule.
From that perch, he and the vice president regularly meet, often with few others present, to discuss what has become an expansive foreign policy agenda. Their offices are “literally feet apart,” said a person familiar with the situation, noting that the corner of the West Wing has the offices of Rubio, Vance and chief of staff Susie Wiles.
“Marco, with years and years more experience, kindly helps JD — as he does all of us,” the person added.
Rubio and Vance coordinated on the Israel-Hamas peace effort and their joint visit to the Vatican. The two “worked closely during Iran and just about any high profile policy process,” said a person close to the White House, who, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss their relationship.
“I think it’s probably safe to assume they talk every day,” said a White House staffer.
The face-to-face meetings offer a way for Vance and Rubio — who have not always been aligned on foreign-policy — to have candid conversations. And they have the added benefit of tamping down on leaks to the press, said the person close to Rubio.
Their working relationship, always closely examined, is newly under the microscope this week after Trump again intimated that Vance and Rubio are his two most-likely successors.
“I’m not sure anyone would run against those two,” Trump said.
Rubio and Vance have downplayed any inherent tension that would seem impossible to avoid, with Vance insisting on a recent podcast that Rubio is his “best friend”
“President Trump has incredible confidence in Marco Rubio who dutifully supports the president’s vision and works tirelessly to accomplish our foreign policy goals,” Vance said in a statement to POLITICO. “Marco is reliable, incredibly competent and a true asset to the Administration.”
Rubio, who was not made available for this story, also sees Vance as his top confidant, the source close to the secretary said.
Their policy discussions are often joined by Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, who hosts them in her office ahead of key discussions with the president.
“There’s a natural alignment, right? You have the vice president, obviously, and the White House chief of staff, and then the secretary, who’s national security adviser. And a lot of the biggest challenges the administration faces right now are these very thorny, complex foreign policy problems that we inherited, and that is a group of people who implicitly trust each other,” the source close to Rubio said of the West Wing trio.
The Vance-Rubio relationship dates back to their days in the Senate, when the two worked on bills together, including The William S. Knudsen Defense Remobilization Act that called for a national strategy to revitalize defense production.
Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who came into the Senate with Vance in 2023, told POLITICO that Vance and Rubio relate to each other’s humble beginnings and shared sense of humor.
“When you have lunch together every day, you tend to gravitate to people that are like you,” he said. “So we were often at the same tables and had a lot of, you know, similar ages, a lot of the same cultural references — but I think they’re just both good guys who are in it for the right reasons, and are pretty aligned on a lot of issues.”
He said the two also have a shared sense of humor: “Rubio knows a lot of movie lines, and JD just has really good timing,” he said.
Schmitt pointed out that they were all questioning additional funding for Ukraine when they were in the Senate, and had raised concerns that it wouldn’t align with America-first principles.
“There was money for Ukraine and and I think many of us were on the floor, into the late night, including myself, Rubio, and Vance, talking about, ‘Hey, there’s all this discussion about the sovereignty of other people’s borders. What about ours? And what about the people affected in our communities? That’s just kind of one example of where that alignment was, and they both brought very effective voices to the debate,” he said.
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