From TikTok to nomination fights, Vance builds his VP portfolio
Vice President JD Vance’s White House portfolio is coming into sharper focus.
Vice President JD Vance’s White House portfolio is coming into sharper focus.
President Donald Trump has tapped Vance, along with National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, to oversee a deal to sell and save TikTok, the Chinese social media company facing a ban in the U.S., two people familiar with the arrangement told NBC News.
The assignment, first reported by Punchbowl News, tops a longer list of tasks Vance is tackling.
His week began in his native Ohio, where, on the second anniversary of the toxic East Palestine train derailment, he committed the administration to completing cleanup efforts and defended Trump’s call for tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. It continued with Vance nudging his former Senate colleagues to support a pair of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees. And it ended Friday with Vance calling for the rehiring of a Department of Government Efficiency staffer who resigned after the Wall Street Journal surfaced racist remarks he had made online.
Up next week: the first overseas trip of Vance’s vice presidency, with an itinerary that includes an artificial intelligence summit in Paris and the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
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