Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were never elected to office and came to their jobs as White House senior advisers for Donald Trump with zero experience in government service. The couple now face increasing media scrutiny over their private business deals and conduct in the White House.

According to Politico, whoever is chosen to be Donald Trump’s next Chief of Staff will need to gain the approval of the president’s daughter and son-in-law first.

Politico reports that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are playing a major role in Donald Trump’s chief of staff search; they’re looking for a “political ally” and are “using their unrivaled influence to ensure they get one,” the report states, noting that the process is being “carefully regulated” by the president’s family.

Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are so crucial in this decision, in fact, that their disapproval of some candidates makes their hiring seem unlikely. According to Politico, this includes David Bossie, Trump’s former deputy campaign manager who he specifically cited as a potential candidate in a Tuesday interview with Reuters. A former White House official told Politico that Ivanka Trump and Kushner have to “sign off” on the pick, also noting that Chief of Staff John Kelly was one of their last political rivals in the White House.

“Kelly was the last one they wanted out,” said a former White House official, who worked with Trump and Kushner during the 2016 campaign. “Now it’s not just the president who needs to sign off on” his next chief of staff, the official added, “It’s Jared and Ivanka. They have a big voice.”

“The view inside is that they are now ‘running the building,’” one of Donald Trump’s allies told the New York Times. For some months, the couple “have been seen as maneuvering for greater control and influence around the president,” the Times added.

Their maneuvering didn’t sit well with Kelly, and it’s apparently one of the reasons he’s decided to leave his job at the end of the month.

His departure was seen inside the White House as “as a coup” for Ivanka Trump and Kushner.

The couple repeatedly clashed with Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who entered the White House in July 2017. Kelly was expected to impose order and respectability in a White House that was seen as dysfunctional and chaotic, the New York Times added.

Kelly, who according to Bob Woodward’s tell-all book called Trump an “idiot” and referred to the White House as “Crazytown,” has long complained that Ivanka Trump and Kushner were “playing government,” according to the Times.