Pence along with several cabinet officials met the people in Corpus Christi yesterday before heading to the town of Rockport.
"The American people are with you," he told a crowd outside a Rockport church that was damaged by the tropical storm.
"We are here today, we will be heretomorrowand we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region is rebuilt bigger and better than ever before," he said.
"We promise you, we're going to stay with you every step until we bring Southeast Texas back bigger and better than ever before," he said.
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About 21,000 federal workers have been mobilised in response to the storm and the Congress is expected to debate passage of a multi billion-dollar emergency aid package in the coming weeks.
Harvey, now a tropical depression, made the second landfall on Wednesday, slamming into the Louisiana coast near the Texas border hitting the region with record-breaking rainfall and devastating floods.
At least 38 people have been killed as a result of the devastating floods and that number was climbing as water receded, revealing the storm's awful toll, officials were quoted as saying by the New York Times.
Storm-battered Texans faced a worrying new threat as potentially harmful smoke spewed from a swamped chemical plant near Houston, as Harvey's floodwaters began to recede in America's fourth-largest city.
President Donald Trump, who visited the area early this week, is expected to return Saturday.
"I think the scope is truly breathtaking," Pence told ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl in an interview in Rockport.
"We're gonna be here today,tomorrow, until it's done. It's not months, it's years," he added.
The vice president pledged unwavering the support from the government as he stood by the president's threat of forcing a government shutdown later this month if Congress does not approve of funding for a new border wall along the southern border of the US.
Pence said," the president has made clear that we're going to stand firm and we're going to build a wall and secure our border.
"But I will tell you, president Trump's made it very clear that our top priority right now is dealing with Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath," he said.
Pence said they will make sure that people of Texas and the region have the resources and the support that they need to rebuild their lives.
Pence's visit came just two days after Trump visited Corpus Christi and Austin and met with state and local officials.
"You've inspired the nation by your resilience and by your courage and we just came here to commend you and to encourage you and to assure you that we will be there," Pence told people of Rockport.
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