GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cheers filled the room as Vice President J.D. Vance walked out to speak in West Michigan on Wednesday.

Vance toured the Howell location for Hatch Stamping, an automotive stamping company. Howell's Livingston County was one in which he and President Donald Trump secured over 60% of the vote last November.

Now, roughly eight months after their inauguration, Vance and allies aimed to inspire confidence in the administration's economic direction.

"We have a master negotiator in the Oval Office who is putting American interests first again," said U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. "President Trump has been striking new trade deals to restore our nation as the world's manufacturing superpower."

It's been a direction heralded by some, but criticized by others for

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