Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, said Tuesday that they were expecting a baby boy in late July.
“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy,” Mr. Vance, 41, and Ms. Vance, 40, said on social media. “Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July.”
In their joint statement, the Vances thanked their staff as well as the military doctors who have taken care of them.
The couple met at Yale Law School in 2010 and were married in Kentucky four years later. They have three young children: two sons, Ewan and Vivek, and a daughter, Mirabel.
It is the first known time that a sitting second lady is expecting a baby while her husband is in office.
Ms. Vance said at the Republican National Convention in 2024 that her husband’s “one overriding ambition” was “to become a husband and a father and to build the kind of tight-knit family that he had longed for as a child.”
Her colleagues have said they view her as a model of the pro-family movement championed by her husband, who explicitly endorsed “more babies in the United States of America,” as he described it at last year’s Right to Life March, amid declining fertility rates.
An official White House social media account congratulated the couple, calling them “the most pro-family administration in history.”
The Vances have taken their children on official international trips, including to Good Friday services at the Vatican and to dinner in New Delhi with the prime minister of India. But Ms. Vance has said little about her family publicly.
The Vances’ announcement came less than a month after Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said she was expecting a baby girl in May.
Ashley Ahn covers breaking news for The Times from New York.
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