Top Ivanka Ally Leaves White House, Signals Giving Up On Paid Family Leave

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga | June 29, 2018 9:47 am

Maggie Cordish, one of Ivanka Trump’s closest allies and a lead staffer on paid family leave, is quitting, according to a Thursday Politico report. There are no plans to replace the staffer.

The two women have been good friends since college, and President Donald Trump is close with Cordish’s father.

Along with a loss of support for Ivanka Trump, Cordish’s departure also signals that the White House is largely giving up on its paid family leave push.

Though a White House spokesperson denied that implication to Politico, Republicans have been unsuccessful in moving paid family leave legislation forward.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) have reportedly been working on legislation that would allow people to borrow from their social security to fund paid family leave, but the idea is strongly opposed by Democrats and even some Republicans.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. "Push"? What push? nt nt

[PatSeg]

2. "Borrow from their social security"???

This was their brilliant idea to fund paid family leave?

[gratuitous]

9. An abominably stupid idea, isn't it?

Better gear up to explain how stupid it is, though, because if it gets any traction, you know Fox will be baying about it 24-7, and the oh-so-fair-minded MSNBC and CNN will feel compelled to lend it credence, even if they do conclude it's stupid (which it is).

[PatSeg]

10. A lot of Trump's base are the elderly

or near elderly, and messing with their Social Security isn't likely to go over too well. To many Americans, it isn't some abstract issue, it is very real and personal.

[gratuitous]

12. Except this is filching from the youngs' social security

And folks under about 50 have been conditioned not to expect that social security will still be there when they retire. I hear it quite often from those younger than me. Of course Republicans aren't going to mess with current beneficiaries, although they make real sure that COLA increases are tamped down. The nation would hate to see pensioners living on anything but the barest of subsistence income, lest they get too dependent. Or something.

I don't even know how the Rubio/Lee/Ernst scheme is supposed to work, but clearly the nation needs to be sure poor people are punished sufficiently for brazenly having children and continuing to pursue gainful employment so that they need to have child care. It's a cinch we shouldn't be raising the minimum wage, and letting young people get too dependent on making enough money to live on.

[PatSeg]

13. The one thing they overlook is

the elderly care about whether their children and grandchildren have Social Security and Medicare in their old age.

[WhiteTara]

3. Another rat drops into the sea. nt

[SamKnause]

4. They were not working on family leave.

They don't know the definition of family or family leave.

[hatrack]

11. Some apparently know the definition of "leave" . . .

Works for me!

[Bettie]

5. I'm still stuck on

Ivanka having actual friends.

I suspect they think they are friends, but they are people who she uses.

[FSogol]

8. Yup, she realized that Ivanka was never going to do more than pay lip service to the issue.

Why hang around?

[shanny]

6. There was a "push?"

Any actual work by princess complicity? who knew

[Solly Mack]

7. She's probably quitting because she reached her desired promised $$$ amount

for taking the job to begin with.