JD Vance Is Targeted by Kamala Harris’s Campaign for Endorsing Child Tax Credits

Daily Report July 28,2024

Harris Campaign SLAMS Vance’s Child Tax

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the running mate of former President Donald Trump, appears to be under attack from Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign for his support of permanentizing and increasing the child tax credit.

“JD Vance’s attacks on childless Americans are even vile. He called for higher taxes on those without children,” Ammar Moussa, Harris’s rapid response director, wrote on X referring to Vance’s longtime support for the child tax credit and expanding its benefits to American parents.

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A video of Vance outlining his support for an increased child tax credit to lessen the tax burden on American families, particularly large families, was also uploaded by Harris’s campaign headquarters’ X account.

In a 2021 interview with Charlie Kirk, Vance stated, “If you are making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you have three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you are making the same amount of money and you don’t have any kids. It is that easy.”

Harris’s campaign headquarters’ X account attacked Vance for endorsing a higher child tax credit in an attack line.

“JD Vance says adults without children should have their taxes raised because we should ‘punish the things that we think are bad,’” the account wrote on X, even though a child tax credit expansion does not raise taxes on Americans without children.

Vance retorted that raising the child tax credit is usually a nonpartisan issue. Indeed, Harris and other Senate Democrats have supported the child tax credit in the past.

According to Vance’s post on X, “the majority of Americans in both political parties support the child tax credit and lowering the tax burden for parents. It’s alarming that the Kamala campaign is adopting such extreme stances against families as part of their deeply anti-family agenda.”

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed an expansion of the child tax credit earlier this year that would, among other things, make the credit inflation-adjustable. Support for the framework was suggested at the time by Vance.

“We’re the party of families… I think it’s important to have a pro-family policy,” Vance said. “If you’re raising children in this country, we should make it easier, not harder, and unfortunately, it’s way too expensive and way too difficult.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Vance have had a significant impact on Republican senators’ adoption of the extended child tax credit plan. Additionally, Vance has expressed concern about the declining birth rates in the US and has supported financial programs that are thought to be bipartisan to increase birth rates in the US.