Overview

• On ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos pressed whether border czar Tom Homan was recorded in September 2024 accepting $50,000 in cash and whether he kept it.
• Vice President JD Vance said Homan did not take a bribe, asserted there is no evidence of a crime, and said he did not know what tape Stephanopoulos was referencing.
• As the exchange grew tense, Stephanopoulos ended the interview and cut to commercial while Vance was speaking.
• Vance argued the program should focus on issues like the government shutdown and foreign policy and later repeated that criticism on X.
• The segment did not establish whether Homan kept the money, leaving the central question raised by the host unresolved on air.