President Donald Trump shared the first photo Monday morning of the new baby boy welcomed by the Vance family.
“Congratulations! A perfect baby boy for the wonderful Vance family,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday alongside a photo of two of the older Vance children holding their new baby brother.
Trump’s congratulatory post comes after Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance announced the birth of Alec Neel Vance on Sunday.
“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,” Vance said. “The incredible military doctors and staff members of Walter Reed Medical Center and the White House Medical Unit have been a blessing. We are deeply thankful for all they have done for our family.”
The Vance’s other kids include Ewan (9), Vivek (6), and Mirabel (4).
No child has been born to a sitting vice president since a son was born in 1870 to Vice President Schuyler Colfax during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
The Vances previously discussed how the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was close to the vice president, influenced their decision to have another child. In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, Erika Kirk told Usha that she had regretted not having more children.
“I think it really heightened JD’s sense that he’d been talking about this for a while, this sense that there was this possibility of having another kid whom he could love as much as the three that we had,” Usha said. “It really did crystallize for [him], that sense that if you could have that other child, then you would have nothing to regret. And if we couldn’t have that other child, then we were very happy with the children that we had. So it was very powerful what she said about her own family and certainly very moving to both of us.”
Vance is not expected to take any formal time off, but will work more from the vice president’s residence.
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