Vance carves out role as Trump’s ambassador to Congress
By
David Sivak
December 21, 2024 7:00 am
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Vice President-elect J.D. Vance won’t be far from the Capitol next year as he carves out a role for himself as President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy to Congress.
Vance spent three days shuttling in and out of House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) office this week to retool a spending deal that Trump torpedoed Wednesday.
He’s made separate visits to the Senate, shepherding Trump’s more controversial Cabinet nominees to meetings with reluctant senators.
Vance’s public posture on Capitol Hill has so far been partisan. He dared Democrats to reject a GOP-only compromise on spending Thursday as Congress lurched closer to a government shutdown.
On nominations, his tone has been just as bombastic. He dismissed allegations that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, had committed sexual assault as a “sham hearing from the American media.”
Yet behind the scenes, Vance is viewed by Republicans as a constructive force who can help Washington weather the tumult of the next four years.
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