Ivanka Trump Parts Ways With Her Father on Syrian Refugees -
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANAPRIL 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, juggling dual roles of White House adviser and daughter of the president, said in an interview aired on Wednesday
that the United States might need to admit more refugees from Syria, a pointed public departure from one of her father’s bedrock populist positions.
Her comments, they said, revealed a simmering private policy debate in the White House
that pits Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, against hard-core nationalists like the president’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the policy adviser Stephen Miller, who see the crackdown on immigration from Muslim nations as fulfillment of a core campaign promise to Mr. Trump’s white working-class base.
In the days after Mr. Trump’s election, Democrats and some moderate Republicans expressed hope
that Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner would act as a moderating and stabilizing force in a West Wing dominated by the mercurial Mr. Bannon, who viewed himself as a disrupter intent on dismantling major components of the federal government.
