Inside Ivanka Trump’s Campaign for a $500 Billion Child-Care Plan

[Right_in_Virginia]

Inside Ivanka Trump’s Campaign for a $500 Billion Child-Care Plan
Bloomberg, Feb 23, 2017, Sahil Kapur, Shannon Pettypiece , and Stephanie Baker

Ivanka Trump has urged lawmakers writing a tax overhaul to include a deduction for child care expenses, but with a price tag of as much as $500 billion over a decade she may have trouble finding support in Congress.

Members of the House and Senate met with the president’s eldest daughter in the Roosevelt Room at the White House last week to discuss her proposed child care tax benefit, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he would soon propose a comprehensive tax overhaul, without offering any details.

Ivanka Trump’s involvement in tax negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans is a signal of her influence with her father despite having no formal role in his administration. Dina Powell, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive who is an economic adviser to the president, is helping Trump to ensure a tax overhaul includes both the child care benefit and a requirement that employers provide paid maternity leave, policies that she pressed her father to embrace on the campaign trail last year.

"Ivanka is really pushing that none of it gets passed unless it includes the child care tax plan,” said Sheila Marcelo, founder of www.care.com, a website to find babysitters and other caregivers. "She and Dina Powell are really pushing to make sure it gets included."


More:  https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-23/ivanka-trump-is-pushing-her-500-billion-child-care-plan-on-hill

[geronl]

Well, they elected all of the Trumps after all.

[Silver Pines]

"Ivanka is really pushing that none of it gets passed unless it includes the child care tax plan,”

Who elected her, again?

She needs to butt the hell out and go back to selling handbags.

[Applewood]

Congratulations, people!  You just elected a royal family. 

The  Founders must he spinning in their graves. 

[Norm Lenhart]

"Ivanka is really pushing that none of it gets passed unless it includes the child care tax plan,”

Who elected her, again?

She needs to butt the hell out and go back to selling handbags.

This is what America wanted. Let the voters get it good and hard. Sucks for the rest of us but pain teaches.

[Oceander]

Just another democrat. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is what America wanted. Let the voters get it good and hard. Sucks for the rest of us but pain teaches.

No, this is not what we wanted or want.

If Ivanka is not a sworn-in member of the administration, then she is contacting and meeting with members of Congress without authority. 

Ivanka needs to register as a lobbyist and conduct her business outside the White House.  Absent this, Ivanka needs to stand down and go away.