RNC rejects Democratic attack on British Foreign Secretary Vance on Fishing Tour

this Commission of Democratic States During Vance’s official trip to the UK, Vice President JD Vance fished on a private lake with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

Republicans were quick to respond to Democrats’ latest response to the latest in a series of attacks on outdoor activities and family outings in a strict official travel schedule.

The DNC War Room issued a press release on Wednesday titled “Vance reappears: Vance fishes illegally with British Foreign Secretary while Americans are flooding with high costs”.

Vance and Lammy met on Friday at the Foreign Minister’s official state residence, known as the Chevening House, in south London, centered on the Israel-Hamas conflict and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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They fished at the estate before booking the meeting. Vance joked briefly to the reporter “One pressure on the special relationship “his special relationship with Lammy” is that all my children caught a fish, but the Foreign Secretary didn’t. “The Vice President quickly delved into more serious topics, including telling reporters that unlike the UK, the United States had no plans in Gaza in view of the “lack of functional government”.

Their meeting was the week before the president Donald Trump’s A high-stakes meeting will be held with Alaska Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In Wednesday’s release, DNC alleges, “Vance is Living his summer vacation (a dime for taxpayers), all of this faces high inflation and the biggest cuts in health care and food aid in U.S. history. ”

“DNC donors can fund their money through a press release for fishing rod licenses? They may want to drag their money out now and then the last money goes away,” Kiersten Pels, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

British media reported that Rami did not purchase a valid fishing license before going out with Vance. In the statement To the Sky News, The Foreign Ministry said the secretary “has written to the Environment Agency, an administrative oversight, which means that there was no proper permission to fish on the private lake during a part of his diplomatic engagement at Chevening House last week.”

The agency reportedly requires a pole permit to fish freshwater species for people aged 13 or older in England and Wales.

Vice President JD Vance spoke with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the Chevening House meeting in Sevenoaks, England on August 8, 2025. (Kin Cheung/Pool/Getty Images)

During his visit to the UK last week, Vance also gave a brief speech to the U.S. troops stationed in Fairford, the Royal Air Force in Gloucestershire.

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DNC claims Vance said with the troops, “It’s only six minutes before returning to his luxury Cotswolds estate of $10,000 a week.”

Earlier this month, the press release was also allegedly related to Vance’s “use of public resources” that “he could row on his birthday.”

“Vance fishes illegally in the UK, which could cost the Foreign Secretary a £2,000 fine,” the press release said.

The DNC further accused Trump and Vance of “deprived health care from 17 million Americans, cut food aid to more than 22 million families, and released economic chaos for the American people, all to billionaires’ friends and donors, another round of massive tax treatment.”

“While working families work hard to achieve it, it’s clear where Vance’s loyalty lies, not with them,” the DNC wrote.

Vice President JD Vance held at Chevening House with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on August 8, 2025 in England. (Suzanne Plunkett/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The latest attack took place in 2028 presidential contenders’ potential democracy California Governor Gavin Newsom for Vance’s recent visit to Disneyland with his children.

“I hope you enjoy your family’s time,” Newsom wrote on social media. “Your family torn apart certainly won’t.”

In response, Vance wrote: “I had a great time, thank you.”

Critics also tried to draw Vance after the Vice President’s security details and raised a Ohio water level on the Ohio River to accommodate the rowing trip he and his family celebrated his 41st birthday. The Secret Service made a request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers so that mobile ships and emergency personnel could operate safely.

Prior to his political career, Vance wrote in particular the autobiography Hillbilly Elegy, which describes how he was raised in Appalachia by his opioid-added mother and joined the Marine Corps and had success at Yale Law School.

Vance revealed the retention in a recent interview with the Katie Miller Podcast “Sacred Time” with Family Allow him to balance his official duties with the duties of his husband and father.

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“It can be done even in my work,” he said. “Yes, if like war breaks out, then sometimes you have to even cancel the sacred time. But, make sure I have at least a few hours a day with my family, we are very good at it.”