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Vice President Vance and Secretary Hegseth Visit Soldiers at Union Station, Aug. 20, 2025

August 20, 2025 · Department of War · 1:49:09

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited National Guard soldiers at Union Station in Washington on August 20, 2025, in support of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, published live by the Department of War (uploaded August 21, 2025). Hegseth’s later D.C. task force remarks are paged separately on this site.

Why it matters

A joint Vice President–Secretary visit to deployed Guard soldiers is the administration’s public show of support for the D.C. task force mission — the senior-leadership record of that deployment at its start.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “LIVE: Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visit soldiers at Union Station,” uploaded August 21, 2025 (official upload, embedded above; the department’s description dates the visit August 20, 2025). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.