Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are expected to host Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Monday evening at their Kalorama home. | Evan Vucci/AP Ivanka Trump, Kushner to host Democrats for tax reform dinner

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are reaching out to Senate Democrats as part of their courtship of Congress on tax reform, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The couple is expected to host Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Monday evening at their Kalorama home, those sources said. All three are up for reelection next year in states where President Donald Trump is popular.


Heitkamp, Manchin and Joe Donnelly of Indiana are the Senate Democratic votes viewed as most gettable on a tax bill by the administration; they abstained from a Democratic letter laying out hardline demands for tax reform. McCaskill signed that letter, and President Donald Trump called her out at a Missouri rally and said she should be defeated next year if she doesn't support tax reform.

GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and several other Republican senators are also expected to attend. White House legislative affairs director Marc Short also may stop by, one source said.

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Thus far, Ivanka Trump has focused much of her congressional outreach on improving childcare options through the tax code. But with the margins so tight in the Senate any bipartisan outreach could go a long way toward the GOP's attempt at comprehensive tax reform.

Without Democratic votes, Senate Republicans can lose only two votes and pass tax reform. But both Manchin and Heitkamp seem open to the administration's outreach and both have appeared with President Trump in recent weeks.