During a speech in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, Vice President JD Vance spoke about the Big Beautiful Bill's provisions for small businesses, and people working overtime or for tips.
00:00And we're just getting started, my friends. The passage of the Big Beautiful Bill. Now, of course, the mainstream media, the corporate press, doesn't like what we accomplished, it doesn't like what we did.
00:12But let me just talk a little bit about what this bill, about what this legislation means for you and your family.
00:19And there are a few different things, a few different ways in which I think this will be transformational for the American people.
00:26You heard Kelly talk about this a little bit. How many, Don, of your 36 employees are putting in a lot of overtime every single week?
00:35I bet a lot of them are. You told me you got projects coming in so fast they're struggling to get people in to do all the jobs that are necessary.
00:45Well, now, thanks to President Trump's leadership, if you work overtime, the federal government is not going to take a dime of that overtime.
00:53You earn that money. You ought to keep it in your pocket.
00:56And while we're on that topic, why is it? You know, the Big Beautiful Bill was about taxes.
01:09It was about spending. It was about investing in America's future.
01:12But one of the most important things the president's doing and working on, it doesn't get nearly the headlines, is asking, why is it that we force every single young person to get a big chunk of debt at a four-year college or university?
01:26Why don't we give our young people more options? Because if we did, a lot of them would come and work at Don's Machine Shop.
01:32And that would be good for them, and it would be good for American workers.
01:39You know, we think it's fine. If you want to go to college, go to college. There's a lot of opportunity out there.
01:43But if you want to work with your hands, if you want to build something, if you want to build a house, build a bridge, make one of these incredible orders that comes in to this small business right here in northeastern Pennsylvania,
01:54your government should not be forcing you to do what elites in Washington want you to do.
01:59You ought to be able to chart your own course and your own career path, and the Trump administration is going to fight for that.
02:04But, you know, here are just some of the other things that we're doing with this one big, beautiful bill.
02:14You know that we are creating the biggest tax breaks, maybe in American history, for investing and building in the United States of America.
02:23So if you're a small business, if you're a medium-sized business, if you want to invest in American workers, we are going to make it so you pay less taxes.
02:31Invest in Americans, and your government ought to reward you. Isn't that common sense?
02:41But the crazy thing is, for years, our government has done the exact opposite.
02:46We have rewarded people who shipped American jobs overseas and penalized the great small businesses who invested right here in America, right here at home,
02:55and the President Trump's leadership. We're flipping that on its head.
02:59If you're building here, if you're making here, if you're working in the United States of America, we just gave you a big, fat tax break.
03:07But if you're going to ship American jobs overseas, thanks to Donald Trump, you're going to pay a big, fat tariff.
03:13It's time to invest in our own country and our own people once again, and we're doing it.
