Vice President JD Vance expressed frustration with Mitch McConnell after the Republican Senator joined Democrats in opposing yet another nominee of President Trump.

Elbridge Colby, Trump's pick to serve as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was confirmed in a 54-45 vote in the Senate on Tuesday. Three Democrats crossed the aisle to help confirm Colby.

McConnell, however, defected with the remainder of the Democrats and voted against him.

Vance took to social media to blast McConnell for what he defined as yet another example of the seven-term senator's "pettiness" when it comes to nominees put forth by the president.

"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," the vice president wrote on X.

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. https://t.co/Qg6eAOqW4J

— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 8, 2025

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McConnell's opposition to Colby appears to involve his desire to shift focus to more pressing threats, such as China, while demanding Europe take on a greater role in defending Ukraine.

In a statement regarding his vote, the senator accused Colby of "abandoning Ukraine."

“Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move,” McConnell said.

“It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit.”

Elbridge Colby is one of the brightest foreign policy minds in the GOP and it's pathetic watching Mitch McConnell continue to stand with Dems to sabotage President Trump. This is why whoever replaces Mitch for Senate needs to represent a clean break from him - Time for a change! pic.twitter.com/yYwsVaCUBU

— Nate Morris (@NateMorris) April 8, 2025

Funding the war effort in Ukraine has seemingly been Sen. McConnell's top priority, period, end of story, since Russia's invasion in February of 2022.

He said as much in an interview with Fox News host Dana Perino, where he suggested that he would focus his time on “explain(ing) to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.”

It wasn't, of course. Americans suffering financially while someone was running the country by usurping the authority of a cognitively challenged President Biden was a slightly more significant concern. 

McConnell, having been fully unshackled by the burdens of another term in the Senate following his announcement that he would not be running again, appears to be determined to be a thorn in Trump's side as he rides off into the sunset. His current term expires in January 2027.

McConnell also voted against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

As with the other Trump nominees, Colby will soon be sworn into his new role despite McConnell's opposition.

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