Trump promises paid maternity leave for new moms

Trump also proposed incentives for employers to provide child-care options at work.

Asked why the plan doesn’t cover paternity leave, Ivanka Trump said the plan is a “giant leap from where we are today, which is sadly, nothing”.

Ivanka Trump later explained her point of view in a series of tweets Thursday afternoon.

According to the campaign, the maternity leave proposal would be funded by eliminating an estimated $3.3 billion in unemployment fraud, though experts have pegged the total cost of even a bare-bones maternity leave paid by the government to cost much more – about $9 billion annually, Politico reported.

At his Tuesday speech, Trump will be introduced by his daughter Ivanka, arguably his most effective female surrogate, who surprised many at the Republican National Convention when she used her address to declare that her father’s administration would “focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all”.

Ms Trump added: “Well, those are your words, not mine”. Trump and Hillary Clinton have each been under increased pressure to release detailed medical records, especially after Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia and was captured on video stumbling getting into a van at a 9/11 memorial ceremony.

The Trump “plan” is just another attempt at a headline in the reality-show drama of his campaign.

In an interview published Wednesday with the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan, Ivanka Trump implied gay men would be excluded from the plan as she touted its extension of benefits to women everywhere, including those in same-sex marriages.

The Republican presidential candidates’ daughter replied: “The policy is fleshed out online, so you can go see all the elements of it”.

In an apparent contradiction to what Ivanka Trump said on “Good Morning America” yesterday, the Trump Organization has suggested that not all of its employees are eligible to receive eight weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave. Then, when she was asked how male same-sex couples would benefit from Trump’s policy, which is written around the health of mothers recovering from childbirth, Ivanka referred the interviewer to the plan, which does not mention male same-sex couples at all. “We’re not living in a ‘ Mad Men’-era anymore, where only women are taking care of infants”, Harris said, referencing the hit TV show set in 1960s NY.

Donald Trump discussed his medical records during a pre-taped interview with celebrity Dr. Oz on Wednesday.

Clinton’s plan for decreasing the cost of child care for families includes “fighting for every family” to have access to the care they need. “Can you talk a little about these comments, and perhaps what has changed?” “I don’t know that he said those comments”, Trump said.

Clinton declined to support a Democratic backed paid family leave bill in 2016 because it would raise payroll taxes for workers and companies by 0.2%, or about $1.38 per week for the median wage earner.