Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) has outlined the Trump-Vance campaign’s pro-family agenda, revealing details including an expanded child tax credit and a childcare policy that will benefit stay-at-home-mothers, fathers and grandparents.
Vance highlighted this pro-family agenda proposal during an interview with CBS News host Margaret Brennan, explaining that a second term for former President Donald Trump will focus heavily on lessening financial burdens for families.
“What President Trump and I want to do on family policy is make it easier for families to start in the first place. We want to bring down housing costs so that if you have a baby, there’s actually a place to raise that baby,” Vance said.
He went on to explain that the Trump-Vance campaign wants to “increase and expand the child tax credit” and to “make it easier for moms and dads to not be shocked by these surprise medical bills when they go to an out-of-network provider.”
“We’re working on all this stuff, and I think that’s ultimately how we turn down the temperature a little bit, is to make it easier to choose life in the first place,” Vance added. “Because when you talk to women, you talk to moms and dads, a lot of times they feel like, if you have a pregnancy, especially an unexpected pregnancy, there just aren’t options. We want to provide more options so that people are raising families in a thriving and happy way in this country.”
Vance also called out the Biden-Harris administration for failing to address the child tax credit, stating: “The child tax credit has languished thanks to the Biden administration because Harris has failed to show fundamental leadership.”
“I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per child. But you, of course, have to work with Congress to see how possible and viable that is,” he added.
Currently, the child tax credit allows up to $2,000 for each child.
Vance also highlighted a previous attack from the Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris — where her campaign condemned him for supporting child tax credits, despite it being a bipartisan issue.
Most Americans in both political parties support the child tax credit and lowering the tax burden for parents. It's disturbing that the Kamala campaign is running on such an extreme anti-family agenda that they're taking radical positions like this. https://t.co/3NUCEgYF5h
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 26, 2024
In late July, Harris campaign rapid response director Ammar Moussa stated that Vance’s support for expanded child tax credits was “vile,” falsely claiming that he wanted to raise taxes on childless Americans, while Vance actually wanted to lower taxes for families.
JD Vance’s attacks on childless Americans is even vile.
He called for HIGHER taxes on those without children. https://t.co/TNeRDYnSd9
— Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) July 26, 2024
Referencing these attacks, Vance told CBS: “When these comments — where I said parents should pay lower taxes via the child tax credit — came out, the Harris administration immediately jumped and said, ‘We disagree with this’ … So do they want the elimination of the child tax credit? Or were they just being careless in responding to remarks that I made three years ago? I don’t know. They should clarify it.”
Vance then pointed out that the Trump-Vance campaign’s “broad-based family policy” means that the child tax credit would apply to all Americans, regardless of their income or demographics.
“I don’t think that you want this, this, this massive cut-off for lower-income families, which you have right now,” Vance said. “You don’t want a different policy for higher-income families. You just want to have a pro-family child tax credit.”
The campaign’s pro-family agenda would also include a childcare policy to help working parents with daycare, which would include tax credits or checks for child care centers and stay-at-home moms, dads and grandparents — as Vance noted that excluding stay-at-home parents or grandparents who do childcare is wrong.
“We, of course, want to give everybody access to child care,” he said. “But look, in my family, I grew up in a poor family where the child care was my grandparents, and a lot of these child care proposals do nothing for grandparents. If you look at some of these proposals, they do nothing for stay-at-home moms or stay-at-home dads. I want us to have a child care policy that’s good for all families, not just a particular model of family.”
“I don’t want us to favor one family model over another,” Vance added. “If you’ve got grandparents who are at home taking care of the kids, I think they deserve to be treated the … same way as other family models by their government.”
.@JDVance says he thinks the child tax credit "should be bigger" than it was under the Biden administration, suggesting a credit of $5,000 per child.
"I think you want it to apply to all American families. I don't think that you want this massive cut off for lower income… pic.twitter.com/X4XcoBRm6x
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 11, 2024
