Vice President JD Vance and wife Usha announce they are expecting fourth child
Phoebe Tonks
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Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha have announced that they are expecting their fourth child together.
The couple shared the happy news on Instagram on Tuesday, January 20, revealing that the impending arrival is a baby boy, before adding both mom and baby were ‘doing well.’
JD and Usha already share three kids: Ewan, eight; Vivek, five; and Mirabel, four.
“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 Instagram post read.
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"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."
The pregnancy marks a historic first for the White House, as it marks the first time ever a second lady has been pregnant while her husband is in office.
Usha is no stranger to firsts, however, as she is currently also the youngest woman to serve as second lady in over 75 years, and follows Jane Hadley Barkley, the wife of Harry Truman’s vice president, Alben Barkley, who assumed the role in 1949 at 38 years old.
The new addition to the Vance family also continues to remain on brand for the VP, who has continually talked about the importance of people raising children throughout his political career.
In an infamous interview during the election campaign trail for his Ohio senate seat (which later went viral during Trump's campaign trail), Vance even branded childless Democrats as ‘a bunch of childless cat ladies’.
Speaking on Fox News at the time, Vance said: "We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.
"It's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.
"And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"
He also spoke again about the importance of bringing more children into the world in a 2025 March for Life, this time, admittedly with a more upbeat message for voters.
“Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America," he began.
“I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them."