Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced Tuesday they’re expecting another child this summer.
“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the couple announced.
“During this exciting and hectic time, we are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children,” their statement continued.
The Vances already have three children: Ewan, born in 2017; Vivek, born in 2020; and Mirabel, born in 2021.
This will be the first time an American vice president has had a child while in office. The 19th century Presidents John Tyler and Grover Cleveland both had children during their terms, and President John F. Kennedy had a son who died two days after he was born.
Vice President Vance has long pushed for Americans to have more children, characterizing the declining birth rate as a crisis.
He used childlessness as an insult in 2021, deriding then-Vice President Kamala Harris as a “childless cat lady” who’s “miserable” with her life and lacks a “personal and direct stake” in the future of the country because she’s not a parent ― even though Harris is a stepmother to two adult children. The remarks resurfaced during his 2024 campaign as President Donald Trump’s running mate.
He’s kept up that messaging while in office. In October, the vice president, 41, told college students at a Turning Point USA event they should have children young.
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“While you’re young, have those babies if you’re able to,” he told the crowd at Ole Miss.
At that same event, a hug the vice president shared with Turning Point CEO Erika Kirk raised some eyebrows, forcing Usha Vance, 40, to address rumors about their marriage.
“I find that one of the really curious things about this life is that people really like to read the tea leaves, and there’s a kind of an industry building stories about everything that they can imagine,” she told USA Today last month.
“I’d rather just sort of live in my marriage and in the real world, and less in kind of the fever dreams that surround it. So I mean, it is kind of a family joke, but also not something that I spend very much time thinking about,” she continued.
Rumors also swirled after the second lady was spotted without her wedding ring in November. She told USA Today that she wears it “when I wear it, and I don’t when I don’t.”
