This week saw The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announce that he had been accidentally added to a top secret chat on the text messaging app Signal.

Among the things that Goldberg claims to have seen was a split between Vice President J.D. Vance and other members of the Trump administration. 

Vance warned that strikes in Yemen could be "a mistake"

As the Daily Mail reported, Goldberg described how Vance expressed reservations over plans to undertake military operations in Yemen.

The United States began launching airstrikes there earlier this month against the Houthis, an Iranian-back insurgent group which has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.

"Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake," Vance was quoted as saying in the chat, which also featured Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The vice president went on to suggest "[t]here is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary."

Vice president pledged "to support the consensus of the team"

"The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message," Vance continued before adding, "I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now."

What's more, Vance cautioned that there is the potential for economic consequences in the form of "a moderate to severe spike in oil prices."

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The vice president stressed that he was "willing to support the consensus of the team" and would "keep these concerns to myself."

Nevertheless, he insisted that "there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc."

Communications director says Vance and Trump "are in complete agreement"

William Martin serves as the vice president's communications director, and he denied that there is any disagreement between Vance and President Donald Trump.

"The Vice President’s first priority is always making sure that the President’s advisers are adequately briefing him on the substance of their internal deliberations," Martin said in a statement.

Martin further declared that "Vice President Vance unequivocally supports this administration’s foreign policy" while the two "have had subsequent conversations about this matter and are in complete agreement."