Washington D.C., Nov 15, 2019 / 11:00 am
Family leave is more than a women's issue, it is a family issue, Ivanka Trump said Thursday at the National Review Institute's event "A Conversation on Paid Family Leave and Childcare" with writer Ramesh Ponnuru.
"For the first time in the history of the paid family leave discussion, we're getting to a place with legislators, where it's not 'should paid family leave be a policy priority?' but 'what's the best design for a paid family leave program?," Ms. Trump said.
Trump lauded an "exciting" time to be involved in paid family leave projects, as new attention is being brought to the issue, and members of Congress are positing different, but not incompatible, ideas on how to better serve new mothers and their families. "And that was not true when [the Trump administration] arrived two and a half years ago," she said.
"There was very little bipartisan support--there was one plan that had been proposed, and re-proposed, and re-proposed for many years," without any sort of bipartisan support or real progress through the legislature, said Trump.