Vice President JD Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday pushed back against former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s call for “more than prayer” in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, responding that the faithful pray “because we know God listens.”

“We pray because our hearts are broken,” Vance wrote on X while replying to Psaki, now an MSNBC host.

“We pray because we know God listens,” he added. “We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways and can inspire us to further action. Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying?”

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