Vice President JD Vance announced on Sunday that his wife Usha Vance has given birth to the couple’s fourth child Alec Neel Vance. He will join siblings Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel.
“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,” the vice president said on social media, thanking the doctors and staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House Medical Unit.
This is the first time in 150 years that the wife of a sitting president gave birth. JD Vance said it was unlikely that he would take parental leave once the baby arrived. The couple announced the pregnancy in January and shared that Usha was due in late July.
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CNN reported that as they settle into life as a family of six, the Vances will be spending more time in rural northern Virginia, leasing a part of their sprawling, multimillion-dollar property in the wealthy enclave of Middleburg. This is an effort to provide the second lady and Vance children with a greater sense of normalcy away from the scrutiny of Washington, D.C., according to people familiar with the matter.
In March, the vice president shared that he had to persuade his wife to have another child at a White House event in Michigan.
“I remember when we decided to run for vice president, I said, ‘Honey, I really want to have a fourth kid.’ And she said, ‘Well, you can become vice president or you can have a fourth baby,’” Vance said. “But, ladies and gentlemen, I am persuasive because I got both.”
Vance has been one of the most vocal members of the Trump administration in calling for higher birth rates in the U.S. He also mentioned that while his wife didn’t initially want a fourth child, her mind changed after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was killed last year.
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“Not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. […] One life was stolen from us, but another was given,” he wrote in his recently published book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”
In an interview with ABC News, Usha Vance reflected on parenting as the country’s second lady and the scrutiny that comes with that.
“Everything that we do is in the public eye,” she said, adding that “people see it” if her children misbehave or get sick.
Earlier this year, Usha Vance launched “Storytime with the Second Lady,” a video series designed to promote early childhood literacy. The project features Usha Vance — who is the first Indian American to become second lady — reading classic and contemporary children’s books, aimed at connecting with American families through the shared experience of storytelling.