US Vice President JD Vance seized on his wife's bargain maternity dress to score a political point on federal spending, after US Second Lady Usha Vance mocked a New York Times column that analysed the "political symbolism" of her pregnancy wardrobe.

The paper’s fashion critic argued that Vance, and other MAGA women, have embodied the president’s ‘pro-natalist movement’

TOI correspondent from Washington: In a city where political leanings are routinely gleaned from coffee orders and canine ownership, America has now arrived at the logical next…