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Mayor-elect Lightfoot meets with Ivanka Trump at White House

By  Lynn Sweet
   
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Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot met with Ivanka Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Among other topics, they discussed workforce development, vocational education, economic revitalization, parole reform and crime prevention. | White House photo

WASHINGTON — Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot arrived at the White House Tuesday, kicking off three days of meetings in the nation’s capital.

She started by meeting with Ivanka Trump at the White House. Lightfoot and the president’s daughter, a senior White House adviser, discussed workforce development, vocational education, economic revitalization, parole reform and crime prevention, among other topics.

Lightfoot was not scheduled to meet with the president.

Later Tuesday, Lightfoot met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top congressional leaders. On Wednesday the incoming mayor is on the House side attending a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus with her fundraiser at a government affairs group in the evening.

On Thursday, she meets with the Chicago and the rest of the Illinois congressional delegation at lunch and breakfast in addition to one-on-ones with Democratic Illinois Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin.

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