Burrito bash: Vance takes fat jab at conservative commentator Marc Thiessen

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Vice President JD Vance and former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen exchanged pointed barbs over concerns about the price of food on college campuses.

Thiessen, who was also a speechwriter for the late Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and has criticized Vance for his leadership in the Trump administration’s peace talks with Iran, dismissed a post on X by Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet about a TPUSA student who complained about burritos costing $20.

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