Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. “You got to like the job, and you got to have enough time to spend with your family, and you got to have your health, and if you’ve got your health and you’re doing what you want to do, why not?” said 82-year-old Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is running for another six-year term this year. Vance, a veteran of the Iraq War, has generally been more wary of war-making than some of his colleagues in the Trump Cabinet, and he has taken a back seat to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a face of American policy in Venezuela.
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Published at: 2026-01-15 22:47:20
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