{"id":2575103,"date":"2026-03-02T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usha-vance-to-visit-childrens-national-hospital-to-mark-national-reading-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:52:05","slug":"usha-vance-to-visit-childrens-national-hospital-to-mark-national-reading-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usha-vance-to-visit-childrens-national-hospital-to-mark-national-reading-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Usha Vance to visit Children\u2019s National Hospital to mark National Reading Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusha-vance-to-visit-childrens-national-hospital-to-mark-national-reading-month%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2575103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance is set to visit Children\u2019s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., to highlight childhood literacy as National Reading Month begins. During the appearance,she will read with hospital patients and promote her literacy initiatives,notably the Summer Reading Challenge for kindergarten through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-schools-near-rochester-mandate-anti-racist-curriculum-overseen-by-blm-leader-who-said-i-dont-care-if-the-whole-city-burned-down\/\" title=\"Public Schools Near Rochester Mandate \u2018Anti...Racist\u2019 Curriculum Overseen By BLM Leader Who Said \u2018I Don\u2019t Care If The Whole City Burned Down\u2019\">eighth grade students<\/a> who read 12 books to earn a certificate and prize,with a 2025 winner receiving a White House trip. The article notes Vance\u2019s ongoing advocacy for literacy as part of her domestic policy work, including camp VPR for children at the Vice President\u2019s Residence. Her visit comes amid concerns from national reading assessments about declines in reading proficiency, and the piece mentions that the couple is expecting their fourth child in July. vance is described as the first indian American Second Lady and as someone who has taken on diverse domestic and international roles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Usha Vance to visit Children&rsquo;s National Hospital to mark National Reading Month<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2479965\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash; <\/strong>Second lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/usha-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11769\">Usha Vance<\/a> will make a special appearance at the Children&rsquo;s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Monday to underscore the importance of childhood literacy.<\/p>\n<p>During the appearance, which coincides with the start of National Reading Month, Vance will spend time reading with the hospital&rsquo;s patients. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4476354\/trump-dodges-questions-on-iran\/\">Trump dodges questions on Iran after returning to Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4476333\/trump-predicts-more-us-deaths-iran\/\">Trump predicts more US deaths in Iran operation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4476327\/trump-iran-operation-four-weeks\/\">Iran operation to last four weeks, Trump says<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Ms. Vance has championed childhood literacy through her projects such as&nbsp;her Summer Reading Challenge launched last summer,&rdquo; a spokeswoman for the second lady told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;The second lady plans to continue her&nbsp;Summer Reading Challenge this year, launching in June.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance announced last year her first Summer Reading Challenge, a program through which children from kindergarten to eighth grade try to read 12 books of their choice before September for a certificate and a prize. In 2025, a child also won a trip to the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> exclusively reported <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3434910\/usha-vance-hosts-first-camp-vpr-children-reading\/\">last June<\/a> that Vance, 40, a trial lawyer and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a>&nbsp;justice clerk before her husband,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\">JD Vance<\/a>, was nominated to become the country&rsquo;s next vice president in 2024, welcomed more than 200 children to the second couple&rsquo;s residence, Number One Observatory Circle, for her first Camp VPR, short for Vice President&rsquo;s Residence.<\/p>\n<p>Every child who attended the inaugural Camp VPR received a book, Usha Vance told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was wonderful to see their excitement when choosing a book,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I hope this inspires them to pick up more books this summer and to complete the Second Lady&rsquo;s Summer Reading Challenge. I encourage all kids across the country to join in and can&rsquo;t wait to see what they have to say about the books they read this summer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance host Camp VPR at the Vice President&rsquo;s Residence in Washington, D.C., Saturday, June 07, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vance&rsquo;s decision to include childhood literacy in her policy portfolio as second lady was inspired, in part, by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation&rsquo;s report card, finding in January last year that reading levels for fourth- and eighth-grade students had decreased by 2 percentage points in 2024 compared to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the National Assessment of Educational Progress found last year that one-third of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >eighth-grade students scored<\/a> below &ldquo;basic&rdquo; in reading, the most in the report&rsquo;s history, with 40% of fourth-graders scoring the same result, the most in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Vance&rsquo;s appearance at Children&rsquo;s National Hospital comes weeks after she and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-spokesman-says-former-vp-didnt-file-to-run-for-president-hints-someone-pranked-media\/\" title=\"Mike Pence&#039;s Spokesman: Former Vice President Didn\u2019t File for Presidential Run ... This is a hint at someone playing media\">vice president confirmed<\/a> in January that they are expecting their fourth child, a son, in July.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview last month with Fox News, Vance reflected on the pair&rsquo;s first year as the country&rsquo;s second couple with three young children, Ewan, 8, Vivek, 6, and Mirabel, 4.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re just taking it step by step and day by day,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And right now, to me, the thing that I really care about is trying to get some of these projects that we&rsquo;ve been germinating off the ground, being there for everything that JD needs me for and making sure that our kids get through this with happiness, you know, and with &mdash; with a pretty normal life on the &mdash; on the other end of it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4475093\/trump-vance-new-leaf-zelensky-one-year-since-oval-office-clash\/\"><strong>TRUMP AND VANCE TURN OVER &lsquo;NEW LEAF&rsquo; WITH ZELENSKY ONE YEAR SINCE OVAL OFFICE CLASH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as being the first second lady to live at the vice president&rsquo;s residence with young children, Vance, a graduate of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/yale-university\/\">Yale University<\/a>&nbsp;and Yale Law School, is also the first Indian American second lady.<\/p>\n<p>Supplementing her domestic policy agenda, Vance has become a pseudo-ambassador for the United States abroad, including leading a presidential delegation to the 2025 Special Olympic Winter Games in Italy last March and a diplomatic mission to Greenland for the Avannaata Qimussersu, the country&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usha-vance-hosts-first-camp-vpr-for-children-at-vice-presidents-residence-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... hosts first ... for ... at vice president&#039;s residence ... ...\">national dogsled race<\/a>, before the vice president upended her plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Vances visited the American Pituffik military base instead amid early concerns about President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s plans for Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Usha Vance has accompanied her husband on different domestic and foreign trips, from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/india\/\">India<\/a> to the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vatican\/\">Vatican<\/a>, including last month&rsquo;s 2026 Winter Olympics, again in Italy, where they represented the U.S. after protests over the Trump administration&rsquo;s anti-<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"8775\">illegal immigration<\/a> response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance to visit Children&#8217;s National for Reading Month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2575104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25323772414404.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[74874,74873,74872],"class_list":["post-2575103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-childrens-national-hospital-2","tag-national-reading-month","tag-usha-vance-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25323772414404.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575107,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575103\/revisions\/2575107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}