Vance Likely To Skip Senate Vote On Child Tax Credit

Roll Call reports:

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit.

The Senate is scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday on a House-passed bill that would expand the credit for low-income families and revive a trio of business tax breaks, including a full, upfront deduction for research and development costs.

But Vance is scheduled to be about 2,000 miles away, on a campaign visit Thursday morning to the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Ariz., to attack the Biden administration’s border policies.

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Vance cares so much about cutting taxes for families with kids that he would rather campaign for MAGA than vote to cut taxes for families with kids.https://t.co/8NYtXNu9G6

— Brendan Duke (@Brendan_Duke) July 31, 2024

Takes some serious chutzpah for Vance to claim Harris doesn’t support the Child Tax Credit (she supports it) and then not bother to vote to expand it because he’d rather campaign. https://t.co/g6p7mQKBi7

— Brendan Duke (@Brendan_Duke) July 31, 2024