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Usha, 40, is the first spouse of a vice president to be pregnant while holding the title of second lady

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced that the second lady is pregnant with a baby boy.

The second couple revealed the news on Instagram in a Tuesday, Jan. 20, post, adding that Usha and the baby are doing well.

JD and Usha already share three kids: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel, 4.

“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.

“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.”

Usha, 40, is the first vice presidential spouse to be pregnant while her husband is in office.

She is also the youngest woman to serve as second lady since Jane Hadley Barkley, the wife of Harry Truman’s vice president, Alben Barkley, who assumed the role in 1949 at 38 years old.

JD, who earned backlash during the 2024 presidential campaign for an old interview in which he characterized Democratic leadership as “a bunch of childless cat ladies,” has routinely spoken about the importance of people raising children throughout his political career.

“Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America,” he told the crowd at the 2025 March for Life. “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.”

At a 2021 conference organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, JD expressed fear that the United States was in a “civilization crisis.”

“We should worry that in America, family formation, our birth rates, a ton of indicators of family health have collapsed,” he claimed.

At the time, he proposed that the U.S. follow the lead of Hungary’s far-right government by rewarding newly married couples with loans to start families. If the partners stay together and have kids, they could get their loans forgiven. “Why can’t we actually promote family formation?” he said.