JD Vance’s Motorcade Dodges Protesters After Wisconsin Tax-Cut Tour

Vice President JD Vance’s visit to La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday drew roughly 150 demonstrators opposed to the recently enacted “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which the administration says delivers the largest tax cuts in U.S. history and encourages domestic manufacturing. Vance was in the state to promote the measure at a Mid-Steel facility and to highlight provisions that eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay. As the vice-presidential motorcade departed, it used an adjacent roadway that state Democrats said was marked as a one-way street in the opposite direction. The detour caught protesters on a parallel route off guard, prompting them to scramble across a grassy median to reposition themselves. Republican supporters circulated video of the scene as a light-hearted jab at the demonstrators, while the Wisconsin Democratic Party criticized the maneuver as a traffic violation.