Left: Vice President JD Vance speaks at the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base on March 28, 2025 in Pituffik, Greenland; Right: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks through the U.S. Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Left: Jim Watson - Pool / Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump announced Colby as his pick for the Pentagon post when he was the president-elect.
"Elbridge Colby’s long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy," McConnell said in a statement.
"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. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit," the senator asserted.
VANCE VISITS CAPITOL HILL TO URGE SENATORS TO CONFIRM ELBRIDGE COLBY FOR PENTAGON NO. 3 POST
Vice President JD Vance greets his friend and President Donald Trump's nominee to be undersecretary of defense for policy. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Vance spoke out in support of Colby last month at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Colby's nomination.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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