After claiming Democrats are “anti-family” and weirdly railing towards “childless cat ladies,” Ohio Sen. JD Vance is more likely to be a no-show this week for a vote to develop the kid tax credit score. Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer scheduled a vote on the bipartisan Tax Reduction for American Households and Staff Act, and Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee won’t be capable to make it again to the Capitol for the vote on Thursday.
Vance has a marketing campaign cease scheduled on the Southern border in Cochise County, Arizona, Thursday morning and is unlikely to alter plans, in accordance with Roll Name. As an alternative of voting to assist American households, Vance will doubtless be demonizing migrant households attempting to return to the USA looking for a greater life. That’s actually one thing coming from a man who claims Republicans are the “pro-family” get together.
Throughout a Fox Information interview on Monday, whereas responding to rising outrage over his earlier statements deriding “childless cat ladies,” Vance falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris was “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”
In actuality, Harris has actively supported increasing the kid tax credit score, which reduces the quantity of federal taxes owed by qualifying households, for a few years now.
In 2018, the then-senator from California co-sponsored laws that might have elevated the credit score had there been a Democratic Senate majority on the time. In 2023, Vice President Harris teamed up with fellow Democrats to craft a price range that might proceed the momentary growth of the American Rescue Plan’s little one tax credit score. That effort was torpedoed by lots of the similar Senate Republicans making excuses at the moment.
“The expanded Child Tax Credit cut the child poverty rate nearly in half during the first year of our Administration,” Harris tweeted in March 2023. “Our budget restores this tax credit permanently because we believe it is our duty to invest in our nation’s children.”
Throughout remarks on the Senate ground Monday, Schumer mentioned, “I urge my Republican colleagues not to stand in the way of helping parents and small businesses and families keep a roof over their heads when it’s time to vote on Thursday.”
“The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is good for kids, good for affordable housing, good for small businesses, and good for American families.” Schumer said in a statement. “This bipartisan bill passed the House overwhelmingly and we hope the Senate Republicans will join us.”
H.R. 7024, a bipartisan effort negotiated between Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and Home Methods and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, handed the Home earlier this yr with 169 Republican votes and 188 Democratic votes.
The Wyden-Smith invoice, as handed by the Home, would regulate how the extra little one tax credit score is calculated for 2023-2025 by multiplying the credit score by the variety of qualifying kids. It units a most refundable quantity per little one of $1,800 in 2023, $1,900 in 2024, and $2,000 in 2025. It additionally gives for an inflation adjustment of the credit score starting in 2024.
The invoice hopes to increase the cap on the kid tax credit score for a lot of the roughly 19 million kids who presently get a partial tax credit score or none in any respect as a result of their households have a number of youngsters. The invoice additionally expands the low-income housing tax credit score that Wyden says will “add more than 200,000 affordable housing units nationwide.”
The Census Bureau estimated that the Democrat-driven 2021 expanded little one tax credit score lifted almost 3 million kids above the poverty line.
As for Vance? In response to the vice presidential candidate’s “cat ladies” remark, Wyden informed Roll Name that the upcoming vote might be illuminating.
“There’s a lot of weird, bizarre stuff going around,” Wyden mentioned. “Everybody’s gonna find out on Thursday who’s a supporter, particularly of large families.”
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