Her television appearances have occasionally drawn criticism, such as when she said, in defense of the Republican plan to replace and replace the Affordable Care Act, that those on Medicaid who would lose health insurance could always just get jobs. Her willingness to speak out in defense of the Trump Administration’s “alternative facts” has inspired sharp satire on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”
Still, Conway stands out as one of Trump’s most trusted and valued staffers: Of the highest-paid White House employees, only Conway and a few others are female. She has also largely managed to stay above the fray and not get drawn into the bickering and drama that has often plagued, and sometimes even cost the jobs of, her peers.
And she’s known for her dry sense of humor. When asked in the fall of 2016 how she would balance a West Wing job with her four children, she replied, “I don’t play golf, and I don’t have a mistress, so I have a lot of time that a lot of these other men don’t.”
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