Usha Vance gives birth to fourth child, JD Vance introduces Alec Neel Vance, 'kids overjoyed to meet little brother'

US Vice President JD Vance announced on Sunday (local time) that he and Second Lady Usha Vance have welcomed their fourth child. He shared the news in a post on social media.

In a post on X, he wrote, "We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning. Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother."

In a statement signed by Vance and his wife, the couple thanked the doctors and staff at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House medical team.

Alec Neel Vance joins older siblings Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4.

Vance encourages Americans to have more children

The Republican vice president has long encouraged Americans to have larger families, making the latest addition to his own family consistent with his public stance on parenthood. Vance has also said that the 2025 killing of his friend, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, influenced his and his wife's decision to have another child.

He noted that it was Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, who told Vance and the Second Lady that she wished she'd had more than two children with her husband before he was assassinated last year in Utah, which led the couple to decide to grow their family. Usha Vance, a former attorney who served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed with the remark, though only in part.

The Second Lady, in an interview with CBS in June, said, "It was very powerful, what (Erika) said about her own family, and certainly very moving to both of us. I think I had already started to open my mind to the possibility," and added, "I wouldn't say that this was, for me in any way, the decisive factor. But it came in the middle of a conversation that we were already having."

A former US Marine, Vance has repeatedly expressed alarm over the declining birth rates in America as he launched his political career in 2021 with a bid for a US Senate seat from Ohio. As vice president, at the 2025 March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, he said, "I want more babies in the United States of America."

The 41-year-old vice president has frequently been accompanied by Second Lady Usha Vance, 40, and their children on their overseas trips. The family has often been seen boarding overnight Air Force Two flights together, with the children dressed in pajamas.

Vance becomes first V-P to have kids while serving in office

According to the AP, the birth of Vance's fourth child marks the first time in more than 150 years that a sitting US vice president has publicly announced the arrival of a child.

The Second Lady, the daughter of immigrants from India, had previously been the subject of some public fascination because of the Republican vice president. Her pregnancy, announced in January, has increased the spotlight since it is unusual for occupants of the highest public offices in the US to add to their families while serving.

The last time a sitting vice president became a new father was in the 1800s. The White House Historical Association says Schuyler Colfax welcomed his son, Schuyler Colfax III, with his second wife, Ellen Wade, in 1870 while serving as US vice president. Earlier, in 1829, then-Vice President John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Bonneau, had a son, William, according to the association.

The arrival of Vance's fourth child comes amid a string of births within US President Donald Trump's administration. Earlier in May, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, welcomed their second child. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, also welcomed their fourth child recently.

(with inputs from AP)