Hillary Clinton's political opponents claim the Clinton Foundation has been used as an influence-buying operation and say it should be shut down

Clinton Health Access Initiative has NOT decided to stop taking foreign and corporate cash and instead is having a meeting about 'next steps'

But now it has emerged it is considering an 'exception' for the biggest single part of the Foundation - a health program

Bill Clinton said last week that the foundation would stop taking foreign donations if his wife was elected president

T he foundation is still discussing whether Chelsea Clinton would be involved in fundraising and waiting until after the election to decide

Chelsea Clinton would remain on the Clinton Foundation's board if her mother is elected president - despite her father saying he would quit.

A spokesperson for Chelsea Clinton told the Wall Street Journal that she plans to stay on with her family's foundation, because she is 'is committed to ensuring that those benefiting from the foundation's work will be able to continue receiving that often-life-changing help.'

The spokesperson added that Chelsea Clinton would help 'steward' the changes to the Clinton Foundation's fundraising policy.

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A spokesperson for Chelsea Clinton said that she plans to stay with her family's foundation if Hillary Clinton is elected president

Bill Clinton said last week that the foundation would stop taking foreign donations if his wife, Hillary Clinton, was elected president

The foundation is still discussing whether the former First Daughter would be involved in fundraising, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Clintons are reportedly waiting until after the election to make an announcement on this.

Chelsea Clinton's continued involvement with the foundation will likely draw fresh criticism from Hillary Clinton's political opponents, who claim the Clinton Foundation has been used as an influence-buying operation and say it should be shut down.

'Number one, they should shut it down,' said Donald Trump on Fox and Friends on Monday. 'Number two, they should give the money back to a lot of countries that we shouldn't be taking and they shouldn't be taking money from.'

A number of news outlets – from USA Today to the Boston Globe - have also called on the Clinton's to shutter the foundation if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

Bill Clinton said last week that the foundation would stop taking foreign donations if his wife was elected president, in order to address 'legitimate concerns about potential conflicts of interest'.

But that promise may turn out to be utterly hollow as the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) - the biggest single part of the Foundation - is considering continuing to accept foreign and corporate cash.

CHAI is a separate legal entity from the Clinton Foundation with its own Board,' Regan Lachapelle, a CHAI spokeswoman, said in an email. 'The CHAI Board will be meeting soon to determine its next steps.'

CHAI accounts for nearly 60 percent of the $250 million the foundation spent in 2014, according to the foundation's most recent annual report posted on its website.

CHAI files separate tax returns from the Clinton Foundation, but is included in the foundation's audited expenses, annual reports and other promotional literature.

While the former president has said he would step down from the Foundation board, Chelsea Clinton's continued role with the foundation would still give the appearance of a conflict, a philanthropy expert told the Wall Street Journal.

'The Clinton Foundation has been way too inattentive to the appearance of impropriety,' said Ray Madoff, director of the Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good.

'Chelsea clearly has access to her parents so the appearance of impropriety continues.'

The foundation is still discussing whether Chelsea Clinton would be involved in fundraising and waiting until after the election to decide

Chelsea has been heavily involved both in the Foundation and her mother's election campaign - and has been seen as being likely to be heavily involved in a new Clinton White House.

Her continuing role with the Foundation, an organization which has become a lightning rod for Republican attacks on her mother, would open the way for questions about conflicts of interest in the White House.

After graduating from Stanford University in 2001, Chelsea Clinton, 36, went on to work for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the Avenue Capital Group investment firm.

From 2011 to 2013, she was also a special correspondent at NBC, where she earned $600,000 a year reporting on uplifting stories for the network's 'Making a Difference' programming.

She brought her own chief of staff, assistant and an outside PR team but turned in just a few packages.

Since 2011, Clinton has worked at the Clinton Foundation.