Providence, R.I. • A proposal for paid parental leave championed by Ivanka Trump could go back to the drawing board.
Two weeks after the plan was outlined in President Donald Trump's budget proposal, his daughter and adviser signaled she is open to other strategies for providing the benefit for new parents. Ivanka Trump met this week with a bipartisan group of scholars pitching a different paid-leave approach.
"She said that was just a placeholder or a stake in the ground and they're open to other ideas," said Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution who came to the White House to present the alternative plan she authored with Aparna Mathur, of the conservative American Enterprise Institute.