Vance Backs $5,000 Child Tax Break in Bid to Steady Campaign
- Current maximum is $2,000 per child for qualifying families
- Harris campaign criticized Vance for skipping tax plan vote
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance floated more than doubling the federal child tax credit to $5,000, seeking to reframe a “pro-family” stance that has come under attack from Democrats.
“I don’t think that you want this massive cutoff for lower-income families, which you have right now,” the Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s running mate said on CBS’s Face the Nation. He didn’t offer specifics on who would quality if the tax credit were expanded from its existing maximum of $2,000 per child.