WASHINGTON, DC — Ivanka Trump will work for her father in the White House on an official basis, according to statements given to the New York Times Wednesday.

Trump already has an office in her father’s White House where she was serving in an « informal » capacity. However, ethics experts worried that the setup allowed her to avoid guidelines that employees are forced to abide by.

“I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees,” she said in a statement to the New York Times.

Her husband, Jared Kushner, is one of President Trump’s top advisers. Her title will be « assistant to the president. »

Princeton University’s Julian Zelizer, a political historian, told NPR that Ivanka Trump’s working on an informal basis at the White House raised troubling questions: « Do the rules apply on nepotism, on conflict of interest, on other kinds of regulations that employees face? »

Earlier in the day, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, both Democrats, sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics raising similar concerns.

The White House released the following statement: « 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. 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. »

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