Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha welcomed their fourth child, Alec Neel Vance, on Sunday—the first child born to a sitting vice president in 156 years—and the press corps spent the week proving they still don't know how to cover a family that actually walks the talk on having kids.
Alec Neel Vance was born at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, joining siblings Ewan, 9, Vivek, 6, and Mirabel, 4. The last vice president to welcome a child while in office was Schuyler Colfax, under Ulysses S. Grant, in 1870. That's how rare it is for people in high office to be building families instead of just talking about them.
The significance here isn't just historical. Vance has built his political identity on alarm about America's declining birth rates and the anti-family drift of elite culture. At the 2025 March for Life, he said plainly:
