JD Vance, champion of higher birth rates, set to become father of four

New York/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are expecting their fourth child, a baby boy, due in late July.

In a joint statement, the couple said: “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.”

They added: “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 White House congratulated the couple in a post on X, writing: “The most pro-family administration in history! CONGRATULATIONS!”

Usha Vance, 40, and J D Vance, 41, met while studying at Yale Law School. They are already parents to three children: Ewan, eight, Vivek, five, and Mirabel, four.

The vice president undertook his first official visit to India in April last year, accompanied by Usha and their three children. The family was in India from 21 to 24 April, meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi before travelling to Jaipur and Agra.

Usha Vance is a litigator and has previously clerked for US Supreme Court Chief Justice John G Roberts and for Brett Kavanaugh when he served on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Her parents, Krish Chilukuri and Lakshmi Chilukuri, emigrated from India to the United States in the late 1970s. Krish Chilukuri is a lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University, while Lakshmi Chilukuri is a teaching professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Provost of Sixth College at the University of California, San Diego.

The announcement comes as the Republican vice president has spent years advocating for higher birth rates in the United States. Vance has repeatedly voiced concerns about declining fertility since launching his political career with a US Senate run in Ohio in 2021. As vice president, he has continued to stress the issue, saying in a March 2025 March for Life speech: “I want more babies in the United States of America.”