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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-lives-washington-works-131050170.html
[font size=5]Ivanka Trump Lives in Washington, Works at the White House, But isn't an Employee Subject to Federal Rules[/font]
.... (Ivanka) Trump, who has a security clearance, is not a White House employee, which means she isn't subject to certain transparency and ethical provisions. And she doesn't have to worry about a law prohibiting conflicts of interest, which could affect her family's vast business empire. Her husband, Jared Kushner, is also a senior adviser to the president, but he is a White House employee.
While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president, I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees, Trump, 35, has said in a statement.
But all of this doesn't sit well with government watchdogs, who are urging President Donald Trump to officially hire his daughter. They wrote a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn Friday that claims Ivanka Trump's position "creates a middle space that does not exist, The Associated Press reported. The letter signed by two former White House lawyers states: On the one hand, her position will provide her with the privileges and opportunities for service that attach to being a White House employee. On the other hand, she remains the owner of a private business who is free from the ethics and conflicts rules that apply to all White House employees. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/politics/jared-kushner-aspen-ski-trip-obamacare/index.html
[font size=5]Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered[/font]
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FakeNoose
(32,628 posts)... so she doesn't have to be there full time to babysit him.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)that he got back earlier tonight. It might have been in the second article you named.
"Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered"