Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that "we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power," despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump's inauguration last week.

Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

  • talEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I mean, the Vice President really doesn’t have very much by way of power assigned them by the US Constitution.

    • They are the most-immediate successor to the President if he is killed or incapacitated in office.

    • They get to cast the deciding vote in tie votes in the Senate. The importance of that varies, but right now the Republican Party holds 53 Senate seats, so on party-line votes, it’s not resting on a knife edge.

    The visibility can help position them for a later run to be President themselves, but there are no guarantees there. The President can listen to their advice.

    Anything besides the above two bullet points that they get to do pretty much is determined by what the President feels like they want to delegate to them; that’s entirely up to the President. So they kind of need to be on good terms with the President if they want to have much by way of actual power during their time in office.