--- title: Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Committee on Russia description: Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, will testify before Senators investigating Russian interference in the presidential election canonical: https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-27T14:25:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:03:01.493Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia Ties og:description: Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, is a senior White House adviser og:url: https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb61637fe8412614c/6988bff8f887dc1510e99954/kushner.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Merkel meets with Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia Ties twitter:description: Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, is a senior White House adviser twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb61637fe8412614c/6988bff8f887dc1510e99954/kushner.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia Ties ## Video: Trump Creates New White House Office Headed by His Son-in-Law Jared Kushner [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Creates New White House Office Headed by His Son-in-Law Jared Kushner](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ml1zcyzF.m3u8) (0:45)  _Published 2017-03-27. President Donald Trump is set to announce a new White House office run by his son-in-law that will seek to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 27, 2017 2:25 PM UTC  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2017. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2017.Michael Kappeler—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 27, 2017 2:25 PM UTC [Jared Kushner](http://time.com/4629223/who-is-jared-kushner-trump/?iid=sr-link1), President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, will [testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/politics/senate-jared-kushner-russia.html) as part of its inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “Throughout the campaign and transition, Jared Kushner served as the official primary point of contact with foreign governments and officials. Given this role, he has volunteered to speak with Chairman \[Richard\] Burr’s Committee, but has not yet received confirmation,” a White House official told TIME. Kushner, one of Trump’s top advisers, met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December, along with Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, [who was fired](http://time.com/4670930/white-house-president-trump-asked-for-flynns-resignation/) after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about the content of his discussions with Kislyak. Kushner also met with Sergey Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, Russia’s state-owned development bank, the [New York _Times_ reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/politics/senate-jared-kushner-russia.html). Kushner, a senior White House adviser, is [expected to lead](http://time.com/4713574/trump-white-house-office-jared-kushner/?iid=sr-link2) the White House Office of American Innovation, which Trump is expected to announce soon, the Associated Press reported. _Zeke Miller contributed reporting._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/"},"headline":"Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia Ties","datePublished":"2017-03-27T14:25:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:03:01.493Z","description":"Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, is a senior White House adviser","url":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/","keywords":["White House","Congress","Donald Trump","jared kushner","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb61637fe8412614c/6988bff8f887dc1510e99954/kushner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb61637fe8412614c/6988bff8f887dc1510e99954/kushner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Merkel meets with Trump","caption":"Merkel meets with Trump","creditText":"Michael Kappeler—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/","name":"Jared Kushner to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia Ties"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Trump Creates New White House Office Headed by His Son-in-Law Jared Kushner","description":"President Donald Trump is set to announce a new White House office run by his son-in-law that will seek to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ml1zcyzF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-03-27T14:40:14.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ml1zcyzF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/","duration":"PT45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4713744/jared-kushner-donald-trump-senate-inquiry-russia/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```