Vice President JD Vance spoke out towards Sen. Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., vote towards confirming Elbridge Colby to function undersecretary of protection for coverage.
“Mitch’s vote in the present day—like a lot of the previous few years of his profession—is without doubt one of the nice acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance declared in a put up on X.
Colby was confirmed in a 54-45 vote on Tuesday. McConnell was the one Senate Republican to vote towards affirmation, whereas three Democrats voted in Colby’s favor.
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Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Getty Photographs)
President Donald Trump introduced Colby as his decide for the Pentagon put up when he was the president-elect.
“Elbridge Colby’s lengthy public file suggests a willingness to low cost the complexity of the challenges dealing with America, the crucial worth of our allies and companions, and the pressing have to spend money on laborious energy to protect American primacy,” McConnell mentioned in an announcement.
“The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is contemporary, new, and urgently wanted is, actually, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy. Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Center East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific isn’t a intelligent geopolitical chess transfer. It’s geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to use,” the senator asserted.
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Elbridge Colby prepares for his affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Armed Companies Committee on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
McConnell has voted towards a number of Trump nominees this 12 months.
“Mr. Colby’s affirmation leaves open the door for the less-polished standard-bearers of restraint and retrenchment on the Pentagon to do irreparable harm to the system of alliances and partnerships which function pressure multipliers to U.S. management. It encourages isolationist perversions of peace by energy to proceed apace on the highest ranges of Administration policymaking,” McConnell mentioned.
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Vice President JD Vance greets his good friend and President Donald Trump’s nominee to be undersecretary of protection for coverage. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
Vance spoke out in assist of Colby final month at a Senate Armed Companies Committee listening to on Colby’s nomination.
