EXCLUSIVE: WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said he feels “very empowered” by President Donald Trump, telling Fox News Digital that there is “complete trust across the senior team,” and “good synergies” in “service of a common vision.”
Vance sat for an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday in his West Wing office inside the White House.
The vice president reflected on his role as vice president, which, notably, is not limited to a specific portfolio, but rather a broad role touching on foreign and domestic policy issues and more.
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Vice President JD Vance said he feels “very empowered” by President Donald Trump. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool/Getty Images)
“Obviously, the president makes decisions. And what’s so good about the team that we have, both on the economic side, but also on the foreign policy side, is the president gives directives, and each person has their role in fulfilling those directives, and there is complete trust across the senior team,” Vance explained to Fox News Digital. “It’s kind of empowering, because you don’t have to constantly check in — you don’t have to micromanage some of these things.”
Vance told Fox News Digital that he spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday, after not having spoken to him “for four or five days before then.”
“It’s kind of nice to just know that you’ve got the secretary of State working on his stuff, the Department of Defense secretary who’s working on his stuff, and I’m, of course, working on my stuff,” Vance said. “And then we all come back; we update the president; we go from there.”
But Vance said it is “a very fluid and dynamic situation.”
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are seen after a ceremony with the 2025 College Football Playoff National Champions Ohio State Buckeyes on the South Lawn of the White House April 14, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty…
