Senator Padilla chokes up on live television over Vice President JD Vance calling him “Jose.”
Host: “This is currently the President of the Senate where you serve. He also went to Yale. I assume that he knows your name is Alex Padilla. Your response to him calling you Jose?”
Senator Jose Padilla: “Oh, he knows my name. He knows my name. Look, sadly it’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He’s the Vice President of the United States. You’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously. You think maybe he’d take a moment to talk to some of the families who have been impacted, who have been terrorized, to feel what’s really going on on the ground? I mean, you saw him shaking hands with Marines, but did he listen to the Marines? Because we have report after report of the Marines, so many of the Marines themselves, that don’t want to be there. That’s not why they enlisted. Or if not the migrant families, how about the employers who I know are speaking up because they’re concerned about their workforce?”
Senator Jose Padilla: “We’ve got a lot of important work to do, but this is how the Vice President chooses to act. And that says a lot.”
