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Mitch McConnell voted against Trump’s pick to serve as undersecretary of policy at the Defense Department, Elbridge Colby.
Colby was confirmed by a 54-45 vote.
Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday voted against Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s pick to serve as under secretary of policy at the Defense Department, warning of “geostrategic self-harm” if the U.S. followed through on Colby’s priorities.
McConnell, in a statement explaining his vote, took issue with Colby’s past statements arguing that the United States should pivot its national security focus away from Europe and the Middle East and toward the Indo-Pacific.
“The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy. Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move,” McConnell warned.
“It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” he said.
JD Vance ripped McConnell for voting against Colby by saying, “Mitch’s vote today…is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen.”
Vice President JD Vance spoke out against Sen. Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., vote against confirming Elbridge Colby to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy.
“Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance declared in a post on X.
Mitch McConnell is a RINO.