“I will continue to offer my father my candid advice and counsel, as I have for my entire life,” Ivanka Trump in the statement. “While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president, I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees.”

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President Trump has named Ivanka, 35, the mastermind behind his child-care and maternity- leave plans, the first proposals on such issues from a Republican president. Since the election, she has sat in meetings with world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Politico reported that she is also working to obtain a security clearance and this week will receive government communications.

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The White House did not respond to further requests for comment.

Ivanka's political ascent stands in contrast with some of her previously stated intentions. In January, she announced that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, would be moving to the nation’s capital — but she would be taking time off to focus on her family. “I plan to take time to settle our three young children into their new home and schools,” she wrote on Facebook at the time.

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The law blocks the president from filling executive roles with relatives. President Trump has tested this rule by hiring his son-in-law Kushner as a senior adviser.

Ivanka still owns her companies, but she has stepped down from her leadership positions and from her executive role at the Trump Organization, her father's company.

Still, ethics experts have raised concerns over an array of conflicts of interest between the Trumps and their sprawling businesses.

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On Monday, NBC reported that Ivanka has banned her eponymous brands from advertising anything with her image. But extracting the first daughter's likeness from her products may prove difficult. During the campaign and even after the election, her public life has been intertwined with her products.

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