Ivanka Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention last July left many Republicans bewildered. With references to “equal pay for equal work” and the promise to make “quality childcare affordable and accessible for all,” some may have even thought they were at the wrong party's convention.
Now, as the president's daughter meets with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to help craft the exact language of her childcare plan, a former campaign aide has come forward to reveal that the bewilderment included many within Trump's own policy team.
“We received a paper from Ivanka, a couple pages—I wouldn't even call it a memo, it was more of a stream of consciousness—that basically articulated Ivanka's vision of what she wanted to do on childcare,” the former aide, who asked to remain anonymous, told me. “I was concerned, and others on the campaign were also startled because it seemed like it could have come right out of Hillary Clinton's playbook.”
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