Overview

• Vice President JD Vance's skepticism about U.S. airstrikes on Houthi rebels, revealed in a leaked Signal chat, has drawn criticism from seven anonymous Republican senators.
• Vance argued the strikes primarily serve European interests and could lead to higher oil prices, a stance some GOP lawmakers labeled isolationist and inconsistent with U.S. priorities.
• The Jewish Insider article reporting the criticism included a factual error, later corrected, which wrongly attributed the deaths of three U.S. service members to the Houthis.
• Vance publicly condemned the article and its editor, calling it a 'hit piece' and criticizing the use of anonymous sources, while MAGA-aligned figures defended his America First stance.
• The controversy has intensified debates within the Republican Party over interventionist versus non-interventionist foreign policy directions, highlighting internal divisions ahead of the 2028 election cycle.