Jackie Speier wants to fine Jared and Ivanka $1000 a day for working in White House

Jackie Speier wants to fine Jared and Ivanka $1000 a day for working in White House

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18: Senior adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump (L), and senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner (R) attend a summit at the East Room of the White House May 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. less WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18: Senior adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump (L), and senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner (R) attend a summit at the East Room of the White House May 18, 2018 in Washington, ... more Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Jackie Speier wants to fine Jared and Ivanka $1000 a day for working in White House 1 / 14 Back to Gallery

With the release of a dishy book on the Kushners on the horizon, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's roles in the White House have been under renewed scrutiny as of late, and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has taken aim at the pair with a bill that seeks to financially penalize people who use volunteering as a loophole to anti-nepotism laws, she explained this week.

"(Trump) thinks this is a game, but we have rules and they were put in places after Bobby Kennedy was the attorney general, and that law basically said, no more nepotism," she said in an appearance on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" this week.

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"So what does this president do? He decides he's going to make his daughter and son-in-law volunteers so they won't be subject to the nepotism law," she added.

Introduced last month, Speier's bill, HR 1028, the "Restoring Integrity, Governance, Honesty, and Transparency Act of 2019," would require volunteers in the White House to pay $1,000 a day in fines for each day they work if they would have been barred from paid employment due to anti-nepotism laws.

"This is wrong," Speier said of Kushner and Trump's White House employment. "It shouldn't have happened in the first place.

The bill would also require candidates for president and vice president to disclose their tax returns.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump both hold top-secret security clearances. In Kushner's case, NBC reported in January that officials initially recommended he be rejected for the high-level clearance due to the possibility of foreign influence, but those concerns were ultimately overruled from above.

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It's worth noting that the fines are largely a symbolic gesture on a couple levels. The legislation is unlikely to pass the Senate, and even if it became law, the couple's net worth has been estimated at $1.1 billion. Should Trump be elected to a second term and Kushner and Trump continue to volunteer through the length of that extra four years, the roughly $2.92 million in fines that would accrue would add up to is a mere 0.27 percent of their shared fortune.