Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance announced Jan. 20 that they are expecting their fourth child, a boy, due this summer.
The couple announced the pregnancy in a joint post on Instagram, later shared on the second lady’s official X account, saying Usha Vance and the baby are doing well and that they are “very excited” to welcome their son in late July.
“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy,” they wrote. “Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July.”
They also expressed gratitude to military medical staff and White House personnel, thanking “the military doctors who take excellent care of our family” and staff members who, they said, make it possible for them “to serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children.”
The Vances are already parents to three children: sons Ewan, 8, and Vivek, 5, and daughter Mirabel, 4.
The announcement is believed to mark the first time a second lady has been pregnant while serving in the role, according to records from the Library of Congress showing no prior documented cases among vice presidential spouses. Pregnancies within first families have been rare in U.S. history.
Usha Vance is a former attorney who clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts and for Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his time on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Before her husband’s rise in politics, she worked at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson.
She and JD Vance met at Yale Law School and married in 2014.
The vice president has spoken in the past about his beliefs that Americans should be having more children.
At a 2019 conference on declining fertility rates, Vance said “Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us. We want babies not just because they are economically useful. We want more babies because children are good.”
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