JD Vance tempered expectations set by Donald Trump that the Strait of Hormuz will be ‘permanently toll-free.’
The Vice President said the permanence of the ‘toll-free’ strait is still under discussion in a TV interview on Monday.
‘Our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re going to figure out in these technical negotiations,’ Vance told CNBC, hedging slightly at Trump’s assertion.
His comments appear at odds with Trump’s claim that the strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil supply flows will
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