Usha Vance’s new life in Trump’s Washington

Usha Vance, wife of US vice president JD Vance, walking on stage on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last year. — Doug Mills/The New York Times

SHE has settled her three children into new schools, set up play dates and overseen the childproofing of her home.

She takes the children to the second lady’s office overlooking the Washington Monument, attends Mass with her family in the Virginia suburbs and hikes on wooded trails around Washington, the Secret Service in tow.