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A Conservative Plan to Strengthen Families, Post-Roe
A Republican bill would encourage parents to get married and to keep working.
It takes a village.
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Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party.
In 2017, when Republicans were in the process of passing a tax reform, Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah proposed that the bill cut corporate tax rates a bit less and expand the tax credit for children a bit more. The Donald Trump administration came out against the move, and most Republican senators voted it down. (Most Democrats voted no, too, because they disliked the bill overall and wanted to make it as unattractive to voters as possible.)