JD Vance's Public Venmo Will Make You Want to Private Yours

For those looking for tea on someone, one of the first places you should look is their Venmo account. The cash transfer app has turned splitting the bill and paying for utilities between roommates into a social media feed — and yes, even politicians use the app.

Though most people have found out how to make all of their transactions private, preventing snooping eyes from seeing how many times they've gone out for brunch in the last month, JD Vance hasn't seemed to figure that out yet.

Wired did an investigation into the Venmo account of former president Donald Trump's running mate, and some of the connections found through the account unveil quite a bit of information voters may want to know.

For starters, one of the first connections the outlet found was that Amalia Halikias, the government relations director at the Heritage Foundation, was listed as one of JD's friends. Though this doesn't confirm anything, it does imply that the running mate has had some contact with the Heritage Foundation (the conservative group trying to organize Project 2025).

Other notable friends in JD's friend's list are Jeff Flake (a former anti-Trump Senator), Tucker Carlson, and Bari Weiss, among others.

It seems that JD managed to hide most of his transactions, but Wired also investigated his friends' public transactions, which raised some eyebrows. His former campaign manager Jordan Wiggins, who he worked with while running for his current seat in the Senate, reportedly has transactions such as “Back waxing & Happy Ending," and "adult [film]."

Though these don't confirm anything, as we're all guilty of an odd description on Venmo here and there, it does lead to some raised eyebrows.

JD and others questioned for the Wired article did not respond to requests for comment, nor has JD or any of the connections mentioned in his Venmo history made a public statement about these findings.