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demmiblue

(36,875 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:11 AM Feb 2019

Ivanka Trump's next policy push: Paid family leave

Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a series of meetings on the administration's paid family leave initiative, which appears to be her next major policy push following last week's women's economic empowerment initiative.

The daughter and top adviser to the President will meet with Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy, Joni Ernst, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio to "continue discussions on the issue," a White House official said.

Paid family leave is part of Trump's "American Working Families" portfolio, which has included other initiatives such as vocational education and workforce development.

"It's encouraging to see members on both sides of the aisle putting forward paid family leave proposals. Twenty-five years after FMLA was passed we finally have bipartisan agreement on the importance of paid leave for working parents. Now we are seeking to build consensus around policy that can garner enough votes to be passed into law," Trump said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/ivanka-trump-paid-family-leave/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-02-13T13%3A45%3A06&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image



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Ivanka Trump's next policy push: Paid family leave (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 2019 OP
You can't JUst Take Money Out Of SS Me. Feb 2019 #1
her "next" major policy push? shanny Feb 2019 #2
I will pay her family to leave. Gladly! fleur-de-lisa Feb 2019 #3
heh shanny Feb 2019 #6
Maybe this is another way for the Repubs to gut Social Security. Bluepinky Feb 2019 #4
Is this taken from the mother's social security? FakeNoose Feb 2019 #5
The people who fund Rubio's campaigns want to kill safety net programs like ooky Feb 2019 #7
She is nothing but a dilettante. nt canetoad Feb 2019 #8
 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
2. her "next" major policy push?
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:02 PM
Feb 2019

when has she ever had a policy push, let alone a "major" one? she does even less work than daddy, as remarkable as that sounds

Bluepinky

(2,276 posts)
4. Maybe this is another way for the Repubs to gut Social Security.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:13 PM
Feb 2019

They want family leave “paid for” by raiding your future Social Security benefits. After that, they will want vacation time, sick leave and holidays to be paid from your future Social Security money.

Let’s add up all the free travel, meals, hotel stays and benefits provided to Trump and his family members and tax it as income.

FakeNoose

(32,726 posts)
5. Is this taken from the mother's social security?
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:16 PM
Feb 2019

I don't understand why maternity leave benefits can't be taken equally from both parents. Why does the mother get penalized, when she retires with (presumably) lower benefits anyway? This is based on the assumption that most women are earning 70-75% compared to the father's salary, so their retirement benefits would be lower also.

Secondly why does the retirement need to be touched at all, when most European countries are able to pay maternity/family leave benefits out of unemployment insurance? The USA is literally the only country that doesn't do this, among all the top economic earners.

ooky

(8,928 posts)
7. The people who fund Rubio's campaigns want to kill safety net programs like
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 02:50 PM
Feb 2019

Social Security and Medicare. If you don't know anything else about the details of Rubio's bill, that one principle is all that needs to be remembered to be certain that it will be structured so that it is not good for anyone except the people who don't need it.

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