Hours after she received a chilly reception during a women’s panel in Berlin, Ivanka Trump was reported to have given a scoop to Axios’s Mike Allen. “Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe,” he wrote in a brief news item Wednesday morning. “Both countries and companies will contribute to create a pool of capital to economically empower women.” A source told Allen that the fund had already received financial commitments from “Canadians, Germans and a few Middle Eastern countries” to provide capital to women building small- and medium-sized companies.

Others disputed that characterization. A White House official stressed to The Washington Post that while Ivanka helped inspire the idea, she will not be involved in soliciting funds. “This is not a White House fund. This is not something that she will have any authority over in any way,” the official said. The initiative was first mentioned publicly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the panel, though a Trump administration official credited Ivanka for raising the idea during a meeting with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

Still, the creation of the fund presents another tricky balancing act for Ivanka, who is already struggling to reconcile her dual roles as First Daughter and Senior Adviser to the president—an unprecedented arrangement that has highlighted the immense gulf between her advocacy on behalf of women and her father’s policies. On the panel in Berlin on Tuesday, Ivanka was jeered when she defended her father’s history on women’s issues, calling him “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive.”

New of the fund immediately raised questions from ethics experts, who posited that the First Daughter could be thrust into even more perilous territory. “Some of the questions that need to be answered are: is it being done through governmental authority or not?” Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, told Talking Points Memo. “Instead of private equity, is it intended as some sort of non-profit?” Former Bush-era ethics czar Richard Painter was more pointed: “It absolutely cannot be a private fund,” he said. “She can’t be at the White House soliciting money for a private foundation. We went through this with Hillary Clinton, who resigned from her foundation when she took a job as secretary of state.”

On social media, too, the reaction was swift. Commentators immediately seized on the apparent parallels to the Clinton Foundation, which Republicans including Donald Trump derided throughout the 2016 campaign as a pay-to-play scandal and ethics nightmare.

Ivanka, who stepped down from her position at her eponymous brand and placed her assets into a trust before joining her father’s administration, appears to be taking steps to avoid similar controversy. Dina Powell, who was advising Ivanka before being promoted to deputy national security advisor, and who remains close to the First Daughter, told Axios in a follow-up story that the fund would be managed by the World Bank, not the White House. Still, plenty of questions remain.

This article has been updated.