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TRANSCRIPT: Vice President JD Vance Speaks At CPAC 2025

Read the full transcript of Vice President JD Vance’s interview by Mercedes Schlapp at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 20, 2025. The American Conservative Union hosted the conservative event at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Maryland.

Listen to the audio version here:

TRANSCRIPT:

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Thank you all. Thank you. It’s great to be with you. It’s good to see you.

MERCEDES SCHLAPP: It is great to see you too. I mean, you’ve been like on a whirlwind here.

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Yeah, yeah.

MERCEDES SCHLAPP: Are you a little jet-lagged or no?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: You know, yes, I am a little jet-lagged. So we did a trip where we went to France and then to Germany, and then we went to San Diego for a family wedding, and then back in D.C. And we did all that in like seven days. Okay. A little jet-lag, but that’s okay. I’m in a good place right now. I got some sleep last night.

INTERVIEWER: Okay, good. And we’re ready. We’re ready.

One Month Anniversary

MERCEDES SCHLAPP: But it’s a real special day today. You know what today is, guys? It’s February 20th. That means our first 30 days. The happy one-month anniversary of the Trump-Vance administration. I mean, how exciting is that?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: It’s very exciting. It’s hard to believe we’ve only been in office for a month, because I think we’ve done more in a month than Biden did in about four years. And thank God for that.

But, you know, the President keeps us on a pretty breakneck pace. He always asks, “What have we done today? What are we going to do tomorrow? What are we going to do next week?” Because I think he realizes this is a special moment in time.