The vice president and Pete Hegseth were met with boos and jeers at Union Station in the nation’s capital.
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth received a frosty reception in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration launched a federal takeover of the capital.
Vance and Hegseth, joined by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, were at the transit hub to meet with members of the National Guard deployed to the nation’s capital by President Donald Trump. Trump took control of the city’s police force and deployed the guard to combat what he called “out of control crime” in D.
