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'Ivanka reached out to me': Major Trump ally reveals first daughter's new White House job

President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, has been noticeably quieter during his second term compared to his first presidency. But according to one of the president's biggest allies, that may be about to change.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president and CEO Dana White said the first daughter asked him if she could spearhead an event commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States' founding next year. White told CBS that Ivanka would be taking a leading role in organizing a UFC fight on the White House grounds next summer.

“When [Trump] called me and asked me to do it, he said, 'I want Ivanka in the middle of this,'” White said. “So Ivanka reached out to me, and her and I started talking about the possibilities, where it would be and, you know, I put together all the renderings."

White — who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024 and frequently donates to Republicans across the United States — has invited the president to sit cageside at multiple UFC events, and donated $1 million to a pro-Trump political action committee last year. He assured CBS that the White House UFC fight was "definitely going to happen" on July 4, 2026, to launch a year-long celebration of the country's founding.

Should Ivanka follow through on her plan to help organize the fight, it would be a milestone for the first daughter during her father's second term given her conspicuous absence. In January, shortly before Trump's second inauguration, Ivanka told the Him & Her podcast that she intended to stay away from the beltway even as her father was back in the White House.

"I love policy and impact. I hate politics. And unfortunately, the two are not separable," she said. "There is a darkness to that world that I don’t really want to welcome into mine."

Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, were senior White House advisors during Trump's first presidency. However, she publicly distanced herself from her father after he falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and during her 2023 testimony in his New York fraud trial, Ivanka — who lives in Florida — claimed to not be closely involved in her father's business affairs.

Click here to read the Beast's full report (subscription required).

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Florida enacts law helping the super rich — including Ivanka Trump — dodge $10 million fee

Billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will reap unexpected benefits from a newly enacted Florida law. This legislation, quietly tucked into a transportation bill, blocks Surfside’s attempt to charge Indian Creek Village — an exclusive island enclave — $10 million for sewage access, the New York Times reported Monday.

The report noted that Indian Creek, known as the “Billionaire Bunker,” has long relied on outdated septic systems that threaten Biscayne Bay’s fragile ecosystem. With properties fetching astronomical prices — including a vacant lot that recently sold for $110 million — its ultra‑wealthy residents were desperate to switch to municipal sewer lines.

"The village comprises only a few dozen properties on a private, man-made island where a vacant lot recently sold for $110 million. Mr. Bezos has properties on the island. Down the street is the retired N.F.L. superstar Tom Brady. A little farther is President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who now sits on Indian Creek’s village council," the report said.

Under the legislation, Indian Creek can bypass superficial negotiations and send sewage through a half‑mile pipe under Surfside to connect with Bay Harbor Islands’ system. Village attorney Stephen J. Helfman told the Times that testing and preparatory work will start in July.

Originally, Surfside town officials requested a $10 million fee from Indian Creek to offset decades of infrastructure costs. But after Indian Creek lobbied state leaders, the new law now prevents Surfside from imposing such requirements, per the report.

Surfside’s mayor, Charles Burkett, called the legislative workaround “creative” in his comments to the Times, and expressed a desire to be a “good neighbor." But former Surfside mayor Paul Novack criticized the process.

Novack lamented the lack of transparency and said that Indian Creek should have negotiated a fair payment instead of leveraging influence in Tallahassee. “Florida’s government is frequently manipulated by special interests," he told the Times.

“This is just another day in Tallahassee."

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Trump’s USAID cuts threaten women’s program he created and daughter Ivanka 'really cared' about

A program that President Donald Trump started and that was touted by his daughter Ivanka Trump will likely be caught in the crosshairs as the administration looks to dismantle the agency in charge of international aid, USAID, CBS News reported on Monday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month put a freeze on all foreign assistance through USAID. “President Trump stated clearly that the United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people,” the White House said in a statement. Last week, a judge temporarily blocked Trump's effort to place 2,200 USAID workers on leave.

The Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP) was established in 2019 to help 50 million women around the world through economic aid. At the time, Ivanka wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about the W-GDP’s launch. She said it would, "for the first time[,] coordinate America's commitment to one of the most undervalued resources in the developing world — the talent, ambition and genius of women."

She added that the initiative intended to help “50 million women in developing countries realize their economic potential by 2025.” In 2020, President Trump announced that in its first year the program “impacted 12 million women.” But, by 2021, Politico reported the initiative was "undercut by shoddy implementation.'

Lillian Achom, who received a grant through USAID's Women Connect Challenge, was invited to the White House for G-GDP’s launch. Ivanka "was somebody who really cared," she told CBS News’ Joanne Stocker.

"I could see that she really loves stories of our success, stories of how women are impacting communities around the globe," Achom said.

Ivanka did not reply to CBS News’ request for comment. A State Department spokesperson said the agency was reviewing programs "to ensure they are efficient and consistent with U.S. foreign policy under the America First agenda."

Cuts to USAID, which provided reliable assistance, will have lasting effects. "The ability of the entire community to move out of poverty is really going to be slowed down or compromised," Achom said.

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Mary Trump: Here’s why Ivanka and Don Jr. haven’t show up to their father’s 'tawdry' trial

The niece of former President Donald Trump recently weighed in on why two of her high-profile cousins haven't yet shown up in Manhattan to stand by their father in his first criminal trial.

During a Wednesday night MSNBC YouTube stream, Mary Trump was asked why she thinks Donald Trump Jr. — the ex-president's eldest son — and his eldest daughter Ivanka are absent from trial proceedings. She responded that they see little to be gained by standing alongside their father in Manhattan.

"Ivanka made the calculation a long time ago that it was not in her best interests to remain in any way associated with the rest of her family. She doesn’t need them,” Mary Trump said. “All of these relationships are transactional. She is a legitimately wealthy person because of the person she is married to. She doesn’t need Donald for anything."

"She’s not going to show up in a courtroom to support him especially in a case which is so, seriously, at its base so depressingly tawdry," she added.

In regard to Donald Trump Jr., Mary observed that his brother, Eric, simply drew "the short straw," noting that it would either be he or his brother going to the trial, and that both going wouldn't make sense. However, she added that if their father demanded it, all would be in attendance "maybe with the exception of Ivanka."

Mary Trump then used their absence to posit that perhaps their father cares less about the support of his own children than he does about public support from Republicans, like the ones who recently held a press conference outside the courtroom.

"He’s much more disturbed by the absence of crowds outside rallying in his defense which is why we’re seeing this parade of increasingly pathetic and sycophantic members of Congress who should be maybe governing but are taking time out of their apparently not very busy days to help undermine Americans’ confidence in the rule of law," she said.

Earlier this week, a slew of Republicans vying to be Trump's running mate traveled to Manhattan to defend the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee. This included both elected officials like North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Florida), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Sens. Tim Scott (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) as well as businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

Mary Trump added that Trump's two oldest adult children not showing their faces was more proof that their relationship was more "transactional" than anything else.

"[Donald Sr.'s] narcissistic needs are much greater than that so somebody else is going to have to make him feel better on that score but it’s a pretty obviously transactional family and if they’re not getting anything out of it, there’s no reason for them to be there," she said.

Watch the video of Mary Trump's segment below, or by clicking this link.

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'Enemies around every corner': Trump family reportedly fatigued by court cases and public scrutiny

Former President Donald Trump's litany of civil and criminal proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and the political fallout from his controversial presidency have taken a toll on his adult children, according to a new Washington Post report.

"The presidency was painful for everyone in the family on some level. You have subpoenas, legal bills, investigations, testimony, terrible news stories, the constant spotlight," an unnamed source close to the Trump family told the Post. "They grew up famous, but it wasn’t like that. They’d never experienced any of that."

Despite their assistance with his 2016 and 2020 campaigns for the White House, Trump's adult children — Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Tiffany — are allegedly distancing themselves from their father's 2024 endeavor as he faces 91 felony counts in both state and federal courts. Both Ivanka and Trump's wife, Melania, have both made efforts to stay out of the limelight since the 45th president's 2020 loss to Joe Biden. and One of the Post's anonymous sources told the publication that the ongoing legal drama has caused the family to become "conspiratorial" and watchful of "enemies around every corner."

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While the ex-president isn't at risk of any jail time in his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York, that case is reportedly "the most deeply personal" to Trump as it concerns his children's inheritance.

"The trial strikes at his identity and the family. His kids, what he’s been able to build over years and years and years," Trump adviser David Urban told the Post.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in damages from the Trump Organization in the civil trial. The state is alleging that both Trump and his sons knowingly submitted false financial information to artificially inflate the company's net worth by more than $2 billion over a ten-year period, with the hopes of obtaining more favorable insurance rates and tax advantages. Over the next two weeks, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Trump himself will all be called to the stand to testify in the trial. Should Trump be found guilty of the allegations, both he and his sons would be held financially liable and would also be permanently banned from being officers in any New York-based company in the future.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed the legal proceedings against the former president as politically motivated.

"All of these witch-hunts are about the abuse of power by radical Democrats and Joe Biden to interfere in an election and go after their political opponent," Cheung said.

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