Before an audience Tuesday night that included female legislators dressed in white to protest his record on women, President Donald Trump told a joint session of Congress that he wanted to work with them on two policies that are key to gender equality and long the territory of Democrats : paid family leave and affordable child care.

My administration wants to work with members of both parties to make child care accessible and affordable, to help ensure new parents that they have paid family leave, Trump said.

The child care and leave ideas come at the urging of Trumps daughter Ivanka, who holds no official position in his administration but has reportedly been pushing legislators to pass a child care tax credit as part of a larger tax overhaul. Her proposal would cost an estimated $500 billion over 10 years, according to Bloomberg.

Even if the policies come to nothing, and the versions that Trump has floated before have been extremely weak, that a Republican president is even talking about them is fairly remarkable.

Particularly this president, a man accused by more than a dozen women of sexual harassment, whos already moved to curtail abortion rights overseas and whose presence in the Oval Office has led millions of women across the country to take to the streets in protest.