Vice President JD Vance Set To Visit Minneapolis Amid Minnesota's Ongoing Strife With Federal Government

CBS Minnesota

January 22, 2026

Vice President JD Vance is expected to travel to Minneapolis on Thursday for a roundtable with local leaders and community members, according to sources familiar with his plans who spoke on condition on anonymity because the trip had not yet been officially announced.

Vance is the federal government's latest envoy to the state amid multiple Department of Justice investigations and the ongoing presence of overwhelming numbers of immigration agents.

The visit will come days after the DOJ served subpoenas to the offices of several Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Attorney General Keith Ellison. The subpoenas, sources told CBS News, are connected to a Justice Department investigation into an alleged conspiracy to impede federal officers from discharging their duties. Walz and Frey, in separate statements, decried the move as political theater and a weaponization of the Justice Department.

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