Megabill’s negotiations show that Vance is a key player in the Trump administration

In the last six months, Vice President JD Vance has shown how much key player has become the Trump administration, serving as the most outstanding defender of the president and moving forward in his agenda.

The last example came this week, when Vance helped promote the Mass Law of Taxes and Expenses by President Donald Trump through Congress.

Vance held a series of meetings with conservative and moderate holders and senate leadership last Saturday to help advance the bill. A direct knowledge source declared that Vance played a key role in talking with the Senate’s holders during the entire bill before finishing emitting several draw votes as president of the Senate and transferring the bill of expenses to the Chamber.

Republican senator Lisa Murkowski, who had criticized the draft cuts to Medicaid and Snap, the food assistance program, met with Vance, where she thanked her for being a team player despite her concerns with the legislation, just before she voted for the bill.

During the sprint to boost the bill, Vance was criticized for his Social publication Around the concerns of the impact of the bill in Medicaid, writing that “the thoroughness of the Medicaid policy are irrelevant compared to the provisions of money and the application of ICE immigration.”

During all this, Vance was making telephone calls to Trump and the two were updating in their conversations with the senators before the approval of the bill.

The vice president attended Wednesday’s meeting at the White House between Trump and several withdrawals from the Chamber when the president increased the pressure to vote for the bill.

The representative of the North Carolina Republican Party, Greg Murphy, who had told the journalists on Wednesday night that he was still undecided due to some of the medical care provisions, said Thursday that he finally decided to support the package after speaking by telephone to Vance and the President.

“I needed guarantees,” he said.

A source close to Vance said he continued working the phones before the vote on the floor on the rule, calling multiple holdouts of the Republican Party to present the case of the administration to support the bill.

However, it is not only in the front of the internal policy that Vance is having an impact. He has also been critical to support Trump’s foreign policy.

While Trump underwent the decision to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, Vance came to the president’s defense after supporters such as Tucker Carlson and those of the Maga base were open against the United States involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

“You can decide that you need to take more measures to put an end to Iranian enrichment. That decision belongs to the president,” Vance wrote in X. “And, of course, people are right to be concerned about the foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiot foreign policy. But I think the president has gained some confidence in this problem. And having seen this closure and personal, I can recharge him that he is only interested in using the US army American.

Vance’s comments were a deviation from his previous statements that the United States should not be entangled in foreign conflicts.

An excellent example is the opposition of the vice president to the United States that provides more help to Ukraine.

“I have to be honest with you, I really don’t care what happens to Ukraine in one way or another,” Vance said in February 2022, in the midst of a bipartisan support explosion for the country after the sequelae of the Russian invasion.

More recently, Vance expressed concern about the president’s decision to hit the hutis in Yemen in a group of signals with other senior administration officials.

“I am not sure that the president is aware of how inconsistent this is with his message in Europe at this time,” Vance wrote in the chat. “There is a greater risk that we see a moderate to severe increase in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and maintain these concerns for myself. But there is a strong argument to delay this per month, do the work of messages on why this matters, see where the economy is, etc.”

In the period prior to strikes, Trump was trying to involve the base of Maga with Vance to see what his reaction would be if he ordered the bombing.

Before the strikes, Trump told reporters on Air Force One while flying from the G7 summit in Canada that it was possible that he could send Vance and the special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Iranian negotiators.

Vance’s active role in the advance of Trump’s agenda was always part of the plan.

In November, after the elections, a source close to the vice president told ABC News that Vance had been assigned the task of ensuring that all the priorities of the Trump administration would advance and work on any of the problems Trump needed to be to be, which indicates that the vice president would not be assigned a specific problem to work, but that he would participate in several political problems.

It was also expected that Vance was Trump’s “eyes and ears” in the Senate to ensure that his advance, the source also said. It is a family territory for Vance, who was chosen for the Senate in 2022.

All this comes when Vance is seen by some as the apparent magician heir to Trump before the 2028 elections. At the same time, he is working to raise as much money as possible for Republicans before the intermediate exams of 2026 as president of the Republican National Committee, the first time a vice president has played the role.

Joel Goldstein, academic vice presidential and former professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Saint Louis, told ABC News that Vance is working in a different timeline compared to his predecessors, since he will only fulfill a term as vice president under Trump.

“Each vice presidency is different and one of the things that is unique about those of Vance is that any other vice president, you know, with the possible exception of Harris, entered the position with the expectation that the president was going to run for re -election,” Goldstein said.

“I think he is in a unique position, since his first mandate as vice president is the last, so his presidential ambitions, the moment of calm appears, you know, much faster than normally is the case.”

After their draw votes in the Senate, several Democrats who could be opponents in the 2028 presidential elections tried to make Vance the face of Trump’s expenses bill.

In an X postFormer transport secretary Pete Buttigieg shouted to Vance for casting the tie vote to allow the bill to advance.

“Vice President Vance has cast the decisive vote in the Senate to cut Medicaid, eliminate food assistance, exploit the deficit and add tax exemptions for the richest,” Buttigieg wrote. “This bill is unpopular because it is wrong,” he continued.

California Gavin Newsom Democratic Governor They told Americans in X To “mark” this moment, writing that “JD Vance is the definitive reason why 17 million Americans will lose their medical attention.”

In an interview with NBC News, Trump pointed to Vance and the Secretary of State and the Interim National Security Advisor Marco Rubio as possible successors, and said, when asked, he believes that his magic movement can survive without him.

He was asked about the president’s commentsVance said that if he ends up running for president, “he has no right to it.”