WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance was not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral, a source familiar with the matter said.

Neither he nor President Donald Trump will attend a service honoring the powerful, but controversial, two-term vice president.

Two former presidents are attending the service: George W. Bush, who served two terms in office with Cheney as his VP, and Joe Biden, who served as vice president for eight years before he won his own bid for the White House.Former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Mike Pence were seen at the funeral.

The sitting VP participated in a fireside chat with the conservative outlet Breitbart News ahead of Cheney's funeral in Washington.

“My condolences go to Dick Cheney and his family. Obviously, there’s some political disagreements there, but he was a guy who served his country. We certainly wish his family all the best in this moment of grieving,” Vance said, after he was asked if he had a message for the Cheney family by the outlet's Washington bureau chief, Matt Boyle.

Vance said moments later, in response to a query about Bush, that Americans don’t want “stupid wars and America’s jobs going overseas and wide open borders," which he said was the "legacy of the Republican Party that came before Donald J. Trump."

"I’m glad the president got us away from that Republican Party,” Vance added.

Vance has been critical of the Iraq war and suggested after Cheney’s death that the deceased politician did a poor job as vice president. Cheney and his daughter Liz, a former Wyoming congresswoman, broke with Trump over his conduct following the 2020 election. They supported Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in 2024.

"He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him," Dick Cheney said at the time. "He can never be trusted with power again. As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution."

The former Republican vice president died at 84 on Nov. 3.

The former Wyoming lawmaker, White House chief of staff and defense secretary was the architect of the "war on terror" and defended the Bush administration's interrogation and indefinite detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay. He is considered the most powerful vice president in American history.

At an event on Nov. 12, after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Cheney "seemed to be actually running the country" during George W. Bush's administration, Vance took a swipe at the former Republican vice president.

"Not very well, as it turns out," Vance interjected, laughing.

Kennedy replied: "We agree on that."

Trump has said the Bush administration made a "mistake" in taking the country to war with Iraq. Vance has also criticized the war, which he saw up close in 2005 as a combat correspondent in the Marines.

Trump has not commented on Cheney's death, and a senior White House official told USA TODAY on Nov. 19 that he wouldn't attend the funeral and was not invited to speak.

The White House said earlier this month that Trump was "aware" of the former vice president's passing and "flags have been lowered to half-staff in accordance with statutory law."

Contributing: Kinsey Crowley

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