So we put a policy in place for her.”īut that “fourth person” remembers things differently: In a Facebook note, the company’s former chief marketing officer Marissa Kraxberger wrote that employees “fought long and hard to get (Trump) to finally agree to 8 weeks paid maternity leave.”
Here’s how Trump described it to Brennan: “The fourth person I hired was pregnant when I hired her. The contradictions between what Trump has advocated and what she now claims credit for also include the family leave policies at her own company. Yet in her interview with Brennan, Trump dismissed the FAMILY Act as “stale.” Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., which would provide all workers with 12 weeks of paid leave. In fact, the new parental leave benefits for government employees closely resemble those in the FAMILY Act, proposed by Rep. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had a similar structure: Let families cover time off by paying for their leave out of future Social Security income.
A previous Trump favorite, proposed by Sen. Rather than paid leave, the Cassidy-Sinema bill would offer families a loan of up to $5,000 to cover time off, and which would be repaid by cuts to the families’ child tax credits. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. In the Brennan interview, Trump touted a bill advanced by Sens. One reason to suspect House Democrats’ version of events is the more accurate is that the paid family leave bills that Ivanka Trump has supported don’t look like the straightforward 12-week guarantee in the defense bill. According to the Washington Post, it’s her father’s opponents whom government workers have to thank for the new benefits: In negotiations over the defense bill, House Democrats used President Donald Trump’s desire for a Space Force to extract funding for the new paid leave policy. This month finally saw some small progress toward fixing this injustice when Trump’s father signed a defense-spending bill that instituted 12 weeks of paid parental leave for government workers.įrom her CBS interview, in which Trump touted “2 1/2 years of building our coalitions of support for this policy,” you’d think this was the result of years of Trump’s hard work. Ivanka Trump is right: “It is not acceptable that, in America today, 1 in 4 women go back to work two weeks after having a child,” she told CBS’ Margaret Brennan in an interview that aired on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.”ĭisgracefully, the United States remains one of just three countries in the world without statutory paid maternity leave.
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