Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.

The Secret Service requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville, Kentucky, raise the water level of the Little Miami River last weekend to “ensure motorized watercraft and

JD Vance’s office claimed the vice president was ‘unaware’ that the water levels had been raised to accommodate his trip