WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are poised to become one of the most powerful couples in the US.

Donald Trump’s eldest daughter and her husband, who played crucial roles in directing Trump’s campaign, now sit at the helm of his transition team, along with Trump’s sons, and, on Monday, Trump named Kushner a senior adviser to the president, an appointment that has raised questions about potential conflicts of interests and drawn accusations of nepotism.

Ethics lawyers have also raised concerns that Kushner’s appointment will run afoul of federal anti-nepotism law, which prohibits any public official from hiring family members to an agency or office which he or she leads.

As the couple prepare to move their family from New York to Washington, his appointment and her continued involvement in the family business open the administration up to new claims of conflicts of interest when it has far from resolved its approach to those of Donald Trump himself.

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