section_path: Vice presidency (2025–present)
section_name: Vice presidency (2025–present)
paragraph_text: Vice presidency (2025–present)
  
  At noon on January 20, 2025, Vance became the 50th vice president of the United States, sworn into the office by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Before his inauguration, he held a meeting with China's vice president Han Zheng in which they discussed China–United States relations. Vance is the third-youngest person to serve as vice president, the second Catholic vice president after Joe Biden, and the first from the Millennial generation. He is also the first Marine Corps veteran to serve as vice president.
  
  Among Vance's first acts as vice president was swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees to be approved by Congress, on January 21. On January 24, he cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. In February 2025, after multiple federal judges issued temporary rulings against various Trump administration actions, Vance wrote, "judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power".
  
  In a first for a sitting U.S. vice president, in March 2025 Vance visited Greenland, where he said "We can't just ignore the president's desires" for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. He also warned that Greenland faced the "encroachment of powerful countries" China and Russia "as they expand their ambitions", while declaring in a "message to Denmark " that "you have not done a good job". Vance criticized Denmark for having "underinvested in the security architecture" and "people of Greenland". The next month, Vance lamented that the "globalist economy" had caused the United States to "borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture".