'Working across the aisle we can deliver for American families!' Ivanka Trump tweeted.
This week, first daughter Ivanka Trump applauded an effort to present yet another paid family leave bill in the Senate—but several advocacy groups said the proposal fails to meet families’ needs, with one leader calling Trump’s support “shortsighted.”
Like several other bills and the paid leave proposal President Donald Trump included in his budget last month, the bill Cassidy and Sinema plan to introduce does not offer comprehensive reform. Cassidy remarked that his bill would provide leave for new parents who jointly make less than $70,000 annually.
Ellen Bravo, co-director of Family Values at Work, a network of coalitions in 27 states pushing for policies like paid family leave, said that Cassidy’s proposal “badly underestimates” the financial strain on parents of new children in middle-class families and would exclude 75 percent of working people who need time off in order to care for someone else with an illness.
“I’m glad that people in both parties recognize the importance of national paid leave, including Ivanka Trump,” Fink told Newsweek. “But in order for a paid family leave solution to really deliver for families, it needs to be comprehensive and affordable.” “We are seeking to build consensus around policy that can garner enough votes to be passed into law and thank the Senators on both sides of the aisle who are working together towards that goal,” the first daughter said in a statement at the time.
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