Vance family to rent home in Virginia countryside

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: July 10, 2026 / 2:17 PM EDT


Washington — The Secret Service has been providing security measures to accommodate an additional residence for Vice President JD Vance and his family in Middleburg, Virginia, two senior law enforcement officials confirmed to CBS News.

Sources familiar with the decision say the rental property would supplement — not replace — the official vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Middleburg is roughly 40 miles from the capital and is well-known for its hunting and horses.

Since the Vance family moved into the vice presidential residence at 1 Observatory Circle, they have made several upgrades, including a new fence for the 72-acre property and the addition of a new chicken coop.

Vance and his wife, Usha, have three young children, and are expecting their fourth this summer.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vance-family-home-middleburg-virginia/

[oasis]

1. Vance had better start looking at Ohio homes.

After 2028 he’ll be taking his sorry ass back there.

[TBF]

4. Vance is done w/Ohio -

He is a "hillbilly" no more! Middleburg has at least a few posh private schools that are very well liked by the executive crowd.

[tonekat]

8. That's horse country

Very well-to-do.

[TBF]

9. I know - I used to live in the Reston area

and I know about Foxcroft et al ...

Executives like to put their children in posh boarding schools, and they are not all in the NE.

[erronis]

11. I lived in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, etc. Do you know about the Mellon jet runway out there?

Technically in Upperville. Not far from the now FEMA bunker at Mt. Weather. I used to hike all around that area on the AT and drove by the airport. An amazing view of a long runway hidden from most observers. Apparently there is some agreement that lets the gov't use that private runway.

[TBF]

12. My time in DC was in the 90s -

I was legal staff so I would learn about such things from the attorneys. I never biked out that far, just around the Reston/Sterling/Leesburg area. I'm not surprised that the government would have stuff out there, though, given the CIA buildings in Great Falls and Middleburg isn't that far away from DC.

[popsdenver]

2. LOL

His improvements remind me of Spiro Agnew, under Nixon.............

Wasn't Agnew found guilty of fraud for his improvements and kicked out of office????????

[mopinko]

3. tax evasion, but

he was taking bribes. like, paper bags full of cash bribes.

[popsdenver]

5. I thought part of it was his taxpayer

improvements to his personal home.........

LOL, in either case, it was probably the last Republican Politician that was thrown out by the Republicans for grifting........
Whatever Agnew did, was a one, on a scale of one to a million, compared to Trump and other current day Republican Politicians...

[erronis]

13. Nowadays we call them tips or gratuities. If Agnew was alive he'd be a trump advisor.

About his major claim to fame was the line "nattering nabobs of negativism" which was actually written by William Safire. Safire was an incredibly intelligent person who had a horrible sense of ethics (working for Nixon.)

I just read this (unknown to me) piece in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire#The_%22Safire_Memo%22

The "Safire Memo"

Safire drafted a never-delivered speech titled "In Event of Moon Disaster", for President Nixon to deliver on television in the event the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.[11] According to the plans, Mission Control would "close down communications" with the LEM and a clergyman would have commended their souls to "the deepest of the deep" in a public ritual likened to burial at sea. Presidential telephone calls to the astronauts' wives were also planned. The speech originated in a memo from Safire to Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman, whence the name "Safire Memo", suggesting a protocol the administration might follow in reaction to such a disaster.[12][13] The last line of the draft speech was an allusion to Rupert Brooke's First World War poem "The Soldier".[13] In a 2013 piece for Foreign Policy magazine, Joshua Keating included the speech as one of six entries in a list of "The Greatest Doomsday Speeches Never Made".[14]

[mahina]

7. Rachel Maddow made a miniseries podcast on his ride that is super. Bagman.

Highy reccd. Free. Excellent.

Also a book but her telling amd the audio of it is astonishing. He was a criminal, straight up, evidence. Stunning.

[2na fisherman]

6. There Goes The Neighborhood

Will the neighbors like being menaced by squads of Secret Service agents?

[TBF]

10. Think estates - it is a wealthy rural area.

Things are spread out enough that it's actually pretty ideal for that sort of thing.

[Envirogal]

14. Who is paying for a "second" residence?

The largess of this administration is ridiculous.

[Drum]

15. Prime Gilead!