INTERVIEW — SENATOR JONI ERNST – United States Senator for Iowa – discussed her meeting with Ivanka Trump yesterday and their efforts to push for paid family leave.

• Ivanka Trump made a new appeal for a federal paid family leave program on Capitol Hill – jump-starting a legislative push at a meeting with GOP senators. (Daily Mail) — Ivanka Trump made a new appeal for a federal paid family leave program. The senior adviser to the president sat down with GOP lawmakers on Wednesday morning to discuss a legislative push  Trump met with Sens. Bill Cassidy, Marco Rubio , Joni Ernst, Todd Young and Mike Lee on Capitol Hill. President Trump has raised the issue each year in his speeches to Congress. Democrats put out a proposal on Tuesday to create a new entitlement.