MAGA Women Defy the Birth Dearth
January 28, 2026
Something of a baby boom is happening at the White House. Vice President JD Vanceand his wife Usha announced last week that they are expecting their fourth child, a boy. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, are also pregnant. White House deputy chief of staff James Blair and his wife, Sam, are expecting a baby in March.
These unborn babies have already attracted a fair bit of partisan commentary. Vanity Fair described the Vances as “Pronatalism’s Poster Couple” and points out that Ms. Vance’s pregnancy announcement was posted on X.com, “a social network owned by fertility-crazed Elon Musk.” Slate suggested that this pregnancy was an attempt to appeal to the MAGA base, since while the choice to have four children “doesn’t have to be conservative-coded, it tends to skew that way.”
