Senate Dems: Trump’s paid leave plan is a ‘non-starter’

Published March 14, 2017 5:43pm ET



Senate Democrats challenged President Trump to live up to his campaign promise to provide a plan to expand paid family and sick leave for all Americans, saying his proposal that would only offer paid maternity leave for women is a “non-starter” in the Senate.

“Trump ran on a paid leave that was entirely unacceptable – it was not gender neutral and it would not actually deal with the problem,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., told reporters Tuesday.

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