Vice President JD Vance suggested he felt like a child without a parent after President Donald Trump decided not to take him to China this week.
"Good afternoon, everybody. How we doing?" Vance said on Wednesday at an event to promote his anti-fraud task force. "So as you know, the president just landed in China a few hours ago. I always, you may know that because of Secret Service protocols that I don't travel outside of the country, with the President of the United States."
"So on days today, I sometimes feel like Macaulay Culkin and Home Alone. I walk into the White House, and it's very quiet, and no one's there, and it takes me a second to realize exactly what's going on," he added.
Vance went on to explain that he had been "hard at work over the last several months" on the anti-fraud task force to "make sure that we take care of the people's money and trying to make sure that the services that exist for the betterment of our fellow citizens, whether they're low-income kids who need access to food resources, whether they're low-income families who need access to medical benefits, that those programs are protected for the people who actually need them, that they don't exist to enrich fraudsters, but they exist for the American people for whom Congress has said they're entitled."