{"id":1055605,"date":"2025-08-13T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055605"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:35","slug":"vacation-vance-at-it-again-vance-fished-illegally-with-uk-foreign-secretary-while-americans-drown-in-sky-high-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-at-it-again-vance-fished-illegally-with-uk-foreign-secretary-while-americans-drown-in-sky-high-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"VACATION VANCE AT IT AGAIN: Vance Fished \u201cIllegally\u201d With UK Foreign Secretary While Americans Drown in Sky-High Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JD Vance is living it up on his summer holiday \u2014 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmbc.com\/article\/secret-service-river-levels-raised-ohio-jd-vance-kayaking\/65635540\">taxpayers\u2019 dime<\/a> \u2014 all while working families face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/08\/12\/business\/cpi-inflation-tariffs-fed?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">sky-high inflation<\/a> and the largest cuts to health care and food assistance in American history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one of his few official activities while on vacation, Vance spoke to troops for only <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1955656937862766733\">six minutes<\/a> before returning to his $10,000 per week luxury Cotswolds manor. After using public resources earlier this month so he could go boating on his birthday, Vance fished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/david-lammy-fishing-illegally-jd-vance-cotswolds\/\">\u201cillegally\u201d<\/a> in the United Kingdom, potentially costing the foreign secretary a \u00a32,000 fine. Vance even had former Chancellor George Osborne plan his vacation\u2019s social agenda, including relaxing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/64df6fe3-c783-4d30-8622-6614d8e33fa7\">\u201cHamptons of the UK.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after Trump and Vance ripped away health care from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/press\/statements\/senate-republicans-can-still-abandon-disastrous-rushed-reconciliation-bill\">17 million<\/a> Americans, slashed food assistance for over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/how-senate-budget-reconciliation-snap-proposals-will-affect-families-every-us%5C\">22 million<\/a> families, and unleashed economic chaos on the American people \u2014 all to give their billionaire friends and donors another round of massive tax handouts. While working families struggle to get by, it\u2019s clear where Vance\u2019s loyalties lie \u2014 and it\u2019s not with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance is living it up on his summer holiday \u2014 on the taxpayers\u2019 dime \u2014 all while working families face sky-high inflation and the largest cuts to health care and food assistance in American history.&nbsp; For one of his few official activities while on vacation, Vance spoke to troops for only six minutes before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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