Second lady Usha Vance may support her husband, Vice President JD Vance, when they’re in public, but she freely admits that she doesn’t agree with every single one of his policy positions.

“I’m not his staffer. I’m not involved in this in any professional sense. … There’s no expectation that we are going to see eye to eye on everything,” Vance said in an interview posted Monday by NBC News.

“The expectation is that we are going to be open-minded and have a conversation, and that I’ll provide meaningful input from, you know, the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed,” she explained. “So even if we don’t agree, it’s — I think it’s always very productive.”

Vance also said she and the vice president talk all the time about issues and that she likes to “understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s really focused on, what concerns he has, because it’s a marriage.”

According to Vance, her policy discussions with her husband usually occur “when something is troubling him” or “when he really wants to talk through something that feels more, kind of, intensely personal or important personally.”

One of the topics she insisted has NOT come up in their discussions is a possible presidential run in 2028, claiming he’s “very focused on the midterm elections right now.”

However, she conceded, “if you come back in 2027 and ask me, I’ll have a better sense of, you know, what he’s thinking in that way. But that’s not the priority in our conversations.”

Vance is currently pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, and her new podcast, “Storytime With the Second Lady,” premiered Monday.

“It’s a podcast that really is just for children. The notion is we will have someone come in — a special reader, we’re calling them — read a fun book, have a very short little conversation about things related to the book, maybe about their career, if they have some sort of interesting background,” Vance said, calling the show “sort of just an advertisement for reading.”

You can watch the complete NBC News interview below.

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