White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump will sit down Tuesday morning with lawmakers, including Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Deb Fischer, R-Neb., to talk about paid family leave, an issue she has previously said is a priority for her.
President Trump’s daughter, also a mother of three children, has called for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for mothers and fathers. The policy has struggled to gain support from conservatives but has won backing from some centrists.
Trump’s proposal would have to be carried out by businesses, which is a conflict of interest to Republicans who say the government should not attempt to tax or impose mandates on the private sector.
Rubio and Fischer have each been proponents on the issue. This year, Fischer introduced a bill to give tax credits to companies that offer employees paid maternity and paternity leave. Rubio backed the idea during his presidential campaign in 2016.
Last December, Trump began lobbying Congress to start working on reforms to childcare policies — an issue she championed while on the campaign trail.
While campaigning, Trump’s eldest daughter touted plans to introduce reforms, including six weeks of paid leave to new mothers, incentivizing employers to provide childcare at the workplace and rewriting the tax code to allow working parents to deduct childcare expenses from their income taxes.
A Politico report on the meeting did not disclose the location.
