Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha gives birth to baby boy

By LILLIAN GISSEN, US DEPUTY LIFESTYLE EDITOR Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha Vance has welcomed their fourth child, a baby boy named Alec Neel Vance. The couple shared the exciting news via X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. 'We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,' JD wrote. 'Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother.'  He went on to thank 'the incredible military doctors and staff members of Walter Reed Medical Center and the White House Medical Unit,' describing them as a 'blessing.' 'We are deeply thankful for all they have done for our family,' he added.  Usha, 40, and JD, 41, first announced that they were expecting their fourth child back in January. 'We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy,' the Second Lady's office posted on X, formerly Twitter, at the time. Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha Vance has welcomed their fourth child, a baby boy named Alec Neel Vance. They're seen together in May  The Vice President and Second Lady already share two sons, Ewan, nine, and Vivek, six, and a daughter, four-year-old Mirabel. The family is seen in February 2025 'Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July.'  The Vice President and Second Lady already share two sons, Ewan, nine, and Vivek, six, and a daughter, four-year-old Mirabel. Weeks later, JD opened up about their baby name plans exclusively with the Daily Mail.  'We've talked about a few names,' Vance dished, adding that they do not plan on picking a name for their fourth child until after the baby is born. 'We're working on it, but, you know, with all three of our kids, we actually didn't settle on their names until after they were born, which is, I think, pretty unusual,' he said.  'Most people choose a name. Well, before the kid is born,' Vance continued. 'I think Usha and I have never just found a name where it's like, "Alright, this is what we want to name our kid." 'And so we always wait to meet them and settle on the names from there.' Last month, Usha made headlines after she fired back at the New York Times' analysis of her maternity wardrobe. Last month, Usha took aim at the New York Times after its fashion critic used a Father's Day video of the couple (seen) to examine what it described as the wider political messaging around prominent pregnant women in the Trump administration 'Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can't wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!' Vance wrote on X  She took aim at the newspaper after its fashion critic used a Father's Day video of the couple to examine what it described as the wider political messaging around prominent pregnant women in the Trump administration.  'Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can't wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!' Vance wrote on X.  She accompanied the post with a screenshot showing the dress had originally been priced at $49.99 before being marked down to $12.49, with a further $3.74 taken off through promotional discounts.  The piece, written by Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, was titled The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image and examined the public pregnancies of Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.  Friedman's column began with an Instagram Reel shared by the Vances for Father's Day.  In the clip, Usha told her husband that their growing family meant he will have many more years of reading to children.  'Luckily, there's going to be a new baby for you to read to,' she said in the video. 'So you're going to have many more years ahead of you.'  JD replied: 'I was not yet ready to be out of the baby phase, so here we are, about to jump right in, in just a few short weeks.'  Usha is seen disembarking Marine Two as she arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on June 20 Friedman noted that Usha was wearing a 'stretchy coral dress' that emphasized her pregnancy and said the video offered a particularly direct public introduction to the couple's coming arrival.  She also pointed to Leavitt's recent birth of her second child with husband Nicholas Riccio, and Miller's birth of her fourth child, describing the three pregnancies as coincidental but significant in the context of the administration's wider image-making.  'That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence,' Friedman wrote.  She argued the pregnancies had nevertheless created a 'consistent' public picture of the White House's family and fertility agenda.  The columnist also said Usha's pregnancy also helped present a more personal side of the vice president.  'As second lady, her job is also to represent and humanize the vice president,' Friedman wrote. 'By spotlighting her pregnancy, she is doing exactly that.'