ANALYSIS — Vice President JD Vance’s Senate record left gaps about his views on foreign policy and the use of U.S. military force, but his text messages on a leaked group chat about counterstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen offered telling clues.
The former Ohio senator, his messages on the Signal platform show, “is the most thoroughgoing and consistent ‘America Firster’ in the administration, even more than [Donald] Trump,” said Giselle Donnelly, a former policy group director for the House Armed Services Committee.
During his brief two-year tenure in the Senate, the Marine Corps veteran was not a member of the Armed Services or any other national security committee. His legislative record and public statements mostly showed a few things: his opposition to American aid to Ukraine, concerns about China and his staunch support for Israel.
