‘First Daughter’ Ivanka Is Now An 'Unpaid' Assistant to US President

Ivanka Trump’s role in the West Wing has been made official. She will be unpaid Assistant to the President: her father. Picture: AFP

An assistant to the president without being paid salary? Oh wow if that's gonna work then it's a big one for Trump. First Daughter Ivanka Trump is about to take on another title as an unpaid adviser to her father President Donald Trump, the White House announced.


She will officially join her father’s administration as an unpaid employee with the title Assistant to the President, the White House said.

Ivanka, whose husband Jared Kushner also works as a senior aide to the president, will not receive a salary for her work as a federal employee. Kushner, a real estate developer, is also unpaid.

“We are pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this step in her unprecedented role as First Daughter and in support of the president,” a White House statement said.

“Ivanka’s service as an unpaid employee furthers our commitment to ethics, transparency, and compliance and affords her increased opportunities to lead initiatives driving real policy benefits for the American public that would not have been available to her previously.”

In the couple of months since her father became president Ivanka, 35, has been a regular presence at the White House, where she already has an office.