President Obama won’t let people work in unpaid internships
Clinton was famous for not paying interns. Kathryn Willey said she wasn’t paid. I’d be surprised if there were no unpaid interns in the White House.
There are exceptions made for government interns. Most Congressional offices couldn’t function without unpaid interns.
The reason why Obama didn’t want to allow unpaid interns was because he wanted to increase the employment numbers. But only for the private sector. His own party would have turned on him if he’d gone after public sector ones.