J.D. Vance, a candidate in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary next month, told The Epoch Times on Thursday that the United States’ funding of gender ideology around the world is a waste of money that weakens it on the global stage. “Pushing the worst of American progressivism on the rest of the world—I don’t want my tax dollars to go to that,” Vance said after speaking on a panel at an emergency foreign policy conference “Up from Chaos.” A Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, Vance is the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” After graduating from Yale Law School, Vance began working for billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most outspoken conservatives and an early supporter of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. In 2020, Vance launched his own Ohio-based venture capital firm, Narya. “I think a lot of countries look at the United States …