Vance Touts ‘Technology of the Future’ on Display in South Carolina Steel Plant

The vice president rejected claims that U.S. trade policies are geared to ‘bring back jobs of the past,’ citing Nucor operation as ‘jobs of the future.’
Vance Touts ‘Technology of the Future’ on Display in South Carolina Steel Plant
Vice President JD Vance speaks, during a tour of Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, S.C., on May 1, 2025. Kevin Lamarque/ AFP via Getty Images
John Haughey
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Vice President JD Vance didn’t have new trade deals to announce, nor did he address trade negotiations or changes to President Donald Trump’s tariff regime during his May 1 tour of Nucor’s steel plant outside Huger in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

Instead, he came to the 62-acre, 30-year-old plant 35 miles north of Charleston to celebrate the Trump administration’s first 100 days, calling it “the beginning of the industrial renaissance in the United States of America.”

John Haughey
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