US vice president JD Vance has come under fire after saying his Catholic faith supports policies that oppose "low-wage foreigners" entering the United States. Soicial media pointed to the fact that his wife, second lady Usha Vance, is an Indian-American and a practising Hindu.
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Vance made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle while discussing his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which focuses on his conversion to Catholicism in 2019.
Asked by host Laura Ingraham how his faith influences his decisions in public office, Vance said his religion encourages humility and shapes his approach to policymaking.
"My faith is constantly asking me to have humility about what's going on, so one of the things that I try do Laura, is constantly ask myself 'What've we learned,' 'Has what we learn, is it consistent with what I thought was going to happen or inconsistent with what I thought was going to happen,'" he said.
He added, "I really do think the Christian faith causes political leaders to be humbled because real humility is how is how you learn, is how you learn about other people, it's how you make better decisions over the course of time."
Vance then linked his faith to the Trump administration's economic agenda.
"The other thing I'd say, Laura, is my faith motivates me to remember that our economic policy doesn't exist for corporations, it doesn't exist for Wall Street, as much as we want everybody to be successful, it exists to support the dignity of human beings," he said.
The VP added: "We want every American to be able to raise a family, to be able to support themselves in comfort and in dignity, that's why we're trying to bring investment and manufacturing back to the US"
He continued, "That's why we don't like low-wage foreigners coming in and undercutting the wages of American workers. We want normal Americans to be able to live a dignified life. I think that's a very, very Christian concept."
