Vice President JD Vance spoke to the Senator. Mitch McConnell’sr-ky. , votes against confirming that Elbridge Colby will serve as defense attorney for policy.
“Mitch’s vote today is one of the greatest acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen, like in the past few years of his career.” Vance has been declared With X’s post
Colby was confirmed on Tuesday with a 54-45 vote. McConnell was the only Senate Republican to vote against confirmation, but three Democrats voted in favor of Colby.
Elbridge Colby has checked the Pentagon’s top policy post after hesitation from the GOP Hawks
Left: Vice President JD Vance will give a speech at the US military Pituffik Space Station on March 28, 2025 at Pituffik in Greenland. Right: Sen. Mitch McConnell DC walking through the US Capitol in Washington, DC on April 8, 2025 (Left: Jim Watson – Pool/Getty Images, Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
president Donald Trump When he was in the presidential election, he announced Colby as his choice of the Pentagon Post.
“Elbridge Colby’s long public record suggests the complexity of the challenges facing America, the key values ​​of our allies and partners, and the willingness to downplay the urgent need to invest in efforts to maintain America’s superiority,” McConnell said in a statement.
“The prioritization that Colby argues is fresh, new and urgently needed is actually a return to the Obama-era concept of a la carte geography strategy. To abandon Ukraine and Europe and downplay the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical shaking. To capitalize on it, the senators argued.
Elbridge Colby, a candidate for Secretary of Defense for President Donald Trump’s policy, is preparing for his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, located in the Darksen Senate Office building in Capitol Hill, on March 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
McConnell voted against multiple Trump candidates this year.
“Colby’s confirmation opens the door for the Pentagon’s standard officer for restraints and reductions to irreparable damage to the system of alliances and partnerships that serve as a powerful multiplier for US leadership.
Vice President JD Vance greets his friends and candidates for President Donald Trump to become defence chief for policy. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Vance spoke in support of Colby at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month on Colby’s nomination.
