After the Vice President was noticed at The Happiest Place on Earth over the weekend together with his spouse Usha and their two children, he was met with some sharp criticism from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who slammed Vance for having fun with time within the Golden state amid ICE raids throughout California.

Pictures and video of the household at Disneyland’s Anaheim theme park rapidly went viral, with Vance seen using sights, smiling together with his kids, and soaking in some sunny downtime.

“Hope you take pleasure in your loved ones time, @JDVance. The households you are tearing aside definitely will not,” Newsom wrote on X (previously Twitter), throwing on the VP.

Vance did not take the jab mendacity down nonetheless, and replied with a brief however telling reply, “Had a good time, thanks.”

Whereas Vance and his household have been residing it up at Disneyland, roughly 150 protesters gathered exterior the gates, in accordance with stories, calling out the administration’s position in latest immigration raids. Separate protests additionally erupted simply two miles away within the better Anaheim space, the place a high-profile crackdown on undocumented employees came about final week.

Regardless of the political warmth, the journey wasn’t strictly private. Second Girl Usha Vance made a cease at Camp Pendleton to advertise her literacy initiative, studying to kids of active-duty navy personnel.

The household getaway unfolded as Newsom continues grappling with authorized and political chaos following a federal raid that detained over 200 undocumented immigrants at a marijuana farm, a transfer backed by President Donald Trump and met with fierce resistance by California officers.

Tensions have solely escalated since Trump’s controversial name to permit federal brokers to arrest anti-ICE protesters on the website. That order was rapidly blocked by a choose, who referred to as the arrests “unconstitutional.”

Newsom stays one of many loudest critics of the Trump-Vance administration amid the raids, and his public shot at Vance is simply the most recent of their rising political feud, which has included a lawsuit in opposition to the administration.

The pending lawsuit, spearheaded by Newsom and Legal professional Normal Bonta, by the state of California will search aid in opposition to the second Trump administration for the administration’s federalization and deployment of the California Nationwide Guard as a part of the June protests.

Trump, in a bitter and in addition complicated transfer, sued the state again over egg costs, blaming animal welfare legal guidelines for the skyrocketing costs within the state.