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.

In early August 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. Vice President JD Vance's team had the water level of an Ohio river raised for a family boating excursion. As first reported

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