{"id":1055639,"date":"2025-08-18T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055639"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:36:31","slug":"welcome-back-jd-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/welcome-back-jd-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back, JD Vacation!\u00a0"},"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>Today, the vice president returns to his job, at least on paper, after two weeks summering in the U.K. at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14979773\/JD-Vance-cotswolds-manor-house-summer.html\">$10,000-a-week<\/a> home in the Cotswolds and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/gallery\/police-luxury-estate-jd-vance-35717837\">$28,000-a-week<\/a> villa in Scotland, where he appears to be no better off with his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1956371622987743249\">golf game<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the stats: JD Vance has gone on vacation at least <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1953876158023389604\">once a month<\/a> since he took office. With that, he\u2019s been busy using public resources for time off, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/06\/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels\">raising the water level<\/a> of an Ohio river so he could go boating for his birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement<\/em><\/strong><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJD, we hope you had another nice holiday. We wanted to catch you up: Since you\u2019ve been gone, Americans are grappling with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/12\/business\/cpi-inflation-trump-tariffs.html\">higher costs<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/23\/trump-tariffs-inflation-back-to-school-shopping.html\">school supplies<\/a>, clothes, and groceries, as students and teachers return to their classrooms. It\u2019s clear Vance\u2019s loyalties lie with the ultrawealthy he\u2019s been vacationing with \u2014 not with working Americans who are struggling under the Trump-Vance billionaire-first agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the vice president returns to his job, at least on paper, after two weeks summering in the U.K. at a $10,000-a-week home in the Cotswolds and a $28,000-a-week villa in Scotland, where he appears to be no better off with his golf game.&nbsp; Here are the stats: JD Vance has gone on vacation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"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-1055639","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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