{"id":8108,"date":"2025-04-08T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:34:04","slug":"political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Political pettiness\u2019: JD Vance slaps Mitch McConnell over DOD vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance castigated Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday over the former GOP leader\u2019s opposition to a key Pentagon nominee \u2014 an unusual swipe at a prominent member of Vance\u2019s own party and his former colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Vance lashed out shortly after McConnell cast the only Republican vote against President Donald Trump\u2019s pick of Elbridge Colby to be the Defense Department\u2019s policy chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch\u2019s vote today \u2014 like so much of the last few years of his career \u2014 is one of the great acts of political pettiness I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1909660275583709358\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hardly the first time the vice president has criticized McConnell. The two split over a debate on Ukraine aid last year when Vance was still a member of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell has voted for most of Trump\u2019s nominees but Colby joins a list of notable high-profile defections, particularly in the national security space. In a lengthy statement Tuesday, McConnell argued that Colby\u2019s confirmation would boost the isolationist wing within the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElbridge Colby\u2019s long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/08\/congress\/elbridge-colby-pentagon-confirmed-00278750\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed Colby on 54-45 vote<\/a>. McConnell did not respond when a reporter asked him in the Capitol halls about Vance&#8217;s comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance castigated Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday over the former GOP leader\u2019s opposition to a key Pentagon nominee \u2014 an unusual swipe at a prominent member of Vance\u2019s own party and his former colleague. Vance lashed out shortly after McConnell cast the only Republican vote against President Donald Trump\u2019s pick of Elbridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}