“I am driven, first and foremost, by my kids and their happiness, so that is always going to be my top priority and my decisions will always be flexible enough to ensure that their needs are being considered,” Ivanka said on Saturday
Photo: FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images Fatigue could be setting in among members of the Trump family: In an interview with CBS News on Saturday, First Daughter Ivanka Trump indicated that she might not return to her role as White House senior adviser for a second Trump term.
An immediate question arose from the comment: What, exactly, has Ivanka Trump done in her father’s first presidential term? While the senior adviser did help push for the recent passage of a bill securing 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal workers, her signature initiatives tend to fall short; some of those that have passed, like the increase to the child tax credit, benefit already-wealthy families.
On other difficult fronts that would apply to her area of policy interests, like child separation at the border, she has remained silent. In February, when she was asked by The View’s Abby Huntsman why she hadn’t objected to the practice, which affected around 4,300 families, she claimed she was “not president of all women’s issues.
If Ivanka Trump is out in 2021 — by personal choice or electoral college loss — she may be leaving with the expectation that it’s not permanent. She has reportedly made a pact with her husband, fellow nepotism icon Jared Kushner, to run for president, while her friends are “one hundred percent sure” she will enter the race in the near future.
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