While President Donald Trump and other high figures of his cabinet were present in downtown New York City, Vice President JD Vance was absent from the annual 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero.
Vance was scheduled to speak at the New York City memorial alongside other senior officials, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. However, according to a source familiar with the matter who spoke to The Washington Post, Vance decided to pull out and instead travel with his wife, Usha Vance, to Utah to pay respects to the family of conservative activist and longtime friend Charlie Kirk in Utah.
