https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-life-support-senate-republicans-are-prepared-sink-child-tax-credit-bi-rcna146856WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are inching closer to burying a bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and provide breaks for businesses, issuing a series of demands that would most likely disrupt the coalition that enabled it to pass the House.The $78 billion bill, negotiated by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., passed the Republican-led House by a vote of 357-70 in January, a rare feat in a divided Congress that has struggled to function. But it has languished in the Senate, where key Republicans have said they’ll kill it unless it includes major revisions. Senate Democrats have 51 seats, and they need 60 votes to break a filibuster.But with tax filing season close to finishing and election-year politics heating up, there’s no hint of a resolution in sight. Democratic leaders are eager to pass the legislation, which, according to one analysis, would benefit about 16 million children in low-income households. Some Republicans openly warn they may sink it.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Finance Committee, said he’d be happy to see the entire tax bill fade away.“I hope so,” Tillis said, adding that it doesn’t have the necessary 60 votes to pass in the Senate today.“I honestly think unless Sen. Crapo indicates they’re negotiating in good faith, I don’t see how they have a path,” he said, referring to Mike Crapo of Idaho, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee. “If it’s just about the vote on the floor, I don’t think they have a path.”The bill would expand child tax credits and lift the $1,600 cap on refundability and adjust it for inflation, with the biggest benefits going to multi-child families with low incomes. The bill also includes some business tax breaks, including for research and development and small-business expensing that were key to getting GOP support in the House.Many GOP senators are deferring to Crapo on the path forward, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.Crapo told NBC News on Tuesday that he still has problems with “a number” of provisions. He said he wants to eliminate a “look-back” policy that would let a taxpayer use a previous year’s income if it yielded a larger child tax credit, arguing that the current language weakens the work requirement. Saying the bill would “create entitlement spending that would generate significantly higher deficits,” he called for spending cuts to fund the child tax credit expansion.“Those are just the start,” Crapo said, adding that he likes the business tax breaks. But about the individual tax provisions: “There’s a multiplicity of issues. And until we get at least engagement on the issues, then I can’t make any kind of predictions.”Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a senior member of the Finance Committee, said he agrees with Crapo about limiting the parameters of the child credits.
Asked whether the bill is dead, he said that wasn’t his announcement to make. “You can’t say that until Crapo says it,” Grassley said. “Crapo’s the guy who’s got to say that.”The demands are a tall order. Crapo indicated that he isn’t satisfied with using changes to the employee retention tax credit as an offset; ditching that idea would require starting from scratch.Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass, the ranking member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, warned that major changes in the Senate would fracture the coalition in the House. He said there’s “no question” Senate Republicans are trying to sink the bill to deny President Joe Biden an achievement in an election year.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., proposed adding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to the tax bill, aimed at benefiting those injured in uranium mining and the Manhattan Project, the program that developed atomic bombs during World War II, saying it might attract GOP votes.“This tax bill looks like, to me, it’s in very serious trouble,” he said Tuesday. “It’s on life support. So I think if they put those things together, that might unlock support. I know it will get my vote.”But Crapo summarily shot the idea down.“I will support it when we fix the provisions in the bill,” he said. Adding the radiation compensation act “does not fix the underlying bill.”Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the chairman of the Finance Committee, said he wanted the bill passed “months ago” but isn’t giving up — and he voiced frustration over the negotiations with Republicans.In an interview, Wyden said that he offered to give the GOP its top demand but that it didn’t adequately move the needle.
“If I had my way, this would have been done months ago. And the reality is this wasn’t something that Senate Republicans wanted to do,” Wyden said. “In the most recent exchange, I gave them what’s individual Republican senators’ top ask, which was to get rid of the look-back. I was given, by them, something that wouldn’t have gotten a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Not one. So there you have it. We’re continuing to try to find common ground.”Wyden touted the package’s popular benefits for families and businesses and taxpayers through anti-fraud measures, urging his Senate colleagues to get behind it.“You’re going to let all this fraud continue and not do anything?” Wyden said. “You’re going to say no to 16 million young people? You're going to say no to those who are the small businesses and say yes to a [Donald Trump] presidential campaign that’s going to be based on being more sympathetic to billionaires’ tax needs?"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was noncommittal Tuesday when he was asked whether he’ll put the bill to a floor vote.“Look, I’m all for the package. If there are enough votes to move it forward in the right way, yeah, we’ll try to get it on the floor,” Schumer told reporters at his weekly news conference. “But right now, we don’t think — they’re trying to get enough votes. The sponsors are trying to see if there are enough votes.”___
Donald J Trump
>>1285986The Elephant in the Room
I'd ask why Republicans don't just pass the bill and campaign on the win. But then I remembered the people financing the Republican party are actively trying to destroy America, and their constituents would rather make their own lives worse than possibly provide relief for all Americans, because not all Americans are white protestants.
>>1285990Yes republicans hate america...>Make America Great Again as slogan..>Doesnt want to bankrupt country..>Doesnt want illegals flooding the streets with crime..>Funds the police ..>Stop grooming children plz...>Lets be energy independent...>Let the people decide...>Skin color doesnt matter...Keep slingin your dogshit takes. Even the sheeples think you are baaaaaaaaaad.
>>1285990You misspelled democrats.
>>1285999>Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Finance Committee, said he’d be happy to see the entire tax bill fade away.>“I hope so,” Tillis said, adding that it doesn’t have the necessary 60 votes to pass in the Senate today.
>>1285996I get you're a Republican shill and are physically incapable of considering the Republican party is anything but perfect, but...>Campaign slogans matter more than actions>Name a Republican president who reduced the deficit or debt in your lifetime>Republicans killed a bill that would have given billions to the border to keep Biden from getting a win>Name a police department with less funding today than when Trump was president>How many Republican politicians would you like me to list who got caught diddling kids?>America's energy output is higher under Biden than it was under Trump>Unless they decide something Republicans don't like>Lol
>>1286004>>Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.Chttps://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/thom-tillis/summary?cid=N00035492lol
>>1285910GOP me me me
>>1286041accidentally triggered real namefaggery with gotta always think of #1 first(i used #)
>>1286042a rare unforced error
>>1286080I catch a three day ban for talking shit, but this broken spam bot gets to shit up the boards?
>>1285910Republicans are addicted to losing. Humiliation ritual.
>>1286081This board was cursed by an old gypsy woman. We're all damned for posting here.
>>1285910Oh no another "bipartisan" bill full of faggoty poisoned pills oh nooooo>because Dems might take credit for itMeanwhile the article says>Crapo told NBC News on Tuesday that he still has problems with “a number” of provisions. He said he wants to eliminate a “look-back” policy that would let a taxpayer use a previous year’s income if it yielded a larger child tax credit, arguing that the current language weakens the work requirement. Saying the bill would “create entitlement spending that would generate significantly higher deficits,” he called for spending cuts to fund the child tax credit expansion.>“Those are just the start,” Crapo said, adding that he likes the business tax breaks. But about the individual tax provisions: “There’s a multiplicity of issues. And until we get at least engagement on the issues, then I can’t make any kind of predictions.”This is why nobody trusts you, shut the fuck up.
>>1286005>Republicans killed a bill that would have given billions to the border to keep Biden from getting a winThis has been debunked in literally every thread where you've spammed it in your coping tranny rage.
>>1286102>The $78 billion bill, negotiated by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., passed the Republican-led House by a vote of 357-70 in January, a rare feat in a divided Congress that has struggled to function.What do Republican Senators know that Republican House members don't?
>>1286103>repeats the tired old Heritage.org narrative one more time>brings up trannies out of nowhere againYour shill tactics need updating.
>>1286105What are you talking about? It was a horrible bill and Republicans would have been silly to fall for it. I get that you have no argument, but at least try a little harder. Real life isn't a "narrative", Greg Abbott couldn't secure the border on his own in that bill and Biden would "totally promise" to slightly lock the border down if crossings got above a certain number, the same Biden who caused this problem in the first place, none of that is a "narrative", it's simple fact. Shut the fuck up you lying little tranny cunt.
>>1286105Who the fuck else spams the lowest tier NPC drivel if not for you trannies?
>>1286106>>1286113lel absolutely seething
>>1286103>I debooooonked it cause I said so!
>>1286146Lookit Big Troon McGoon here doing it's best to be retarded.
>>1286150He's right. It was never debunked, especially not by a far right kneejerker like you.
>>1286150>tranny troon tranny I can't stop think of girl dick!What are you like this?
>>1286163Corporal Klinger here thinks I'm the weird one.Interesting.
>>1285990that would be dems actively trying to destroy America
>>1286221is russia winning
child sex creditthe republicans?what do you mean your gonna do that
>>1286227According to Ukraine, yes
>>1286227I literally don't care what happens in that jewish shithole. dems have never done a single good thing for the US in my lifetime
>>1286234another "republican" who forgot they're pro israel, huh
>>1286236and the dems aren't?
>>1286227Yes, Russia is winning you stupid fucking choad.
>>1286237there's certainly no democrat equivalent of jared kushner i can think of. carter was the first president to formally recognize palestine
>>1286239weird how the name of the senate majority leader eludes you.
>>1286241just pretend kushner isn't directly responsible for the current conflict by giving israel jerusalem. we all know you love to project
>>1286239You do know like 100% of Democrats who aren't The Squad are jewish, right?If we really want to go into the JQ on politicians in this thread let me know. Neither side is unaffected, the way the jews intended it.
>>1286241alsohttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/15/schumer-israel-rebuke-aipac-00147430
>>1286243>the JQfollow your leader faggot
>>1286242I literally do not give a shit what happens in countries outside the US. >>1286244schumer has given the jews hundreds of billions of US taxpayer money
>>1286248you don't care if your side helps israel. ftfy
>>1286246>bitches about israel for some reason>bitches about people bringing up the JQseems like you are a jew
>>1286250I want them to cut foreign aid, but the dems give the jews just as much cash all the time, so I don't see why you are brining it up. or why you brought up jerusalem as though I'd give the slightest fuck about palastinians being genocided
>>1286251>you pointed out my hypocrisy and now i'm upset
>>1286254what hypocrisy? I dislike jews. both sides give money to the jews. like half of dem leadership is jewish
>>1286255and trump had possibly the most pro israel nepo hire in existence advising him on israeli affairs. but you conveniently ignore it
>>1286257again, what does that have to do with dems also sending my money to the jews, raising taxes, having open borders and trying to ban guns?
>>1286259if you're too dumb to understand cause and effect we can just finish our little conversation
>>1286260you seem to think you are going to get me not to vote or to switch to the dems. I don't vote for the GOP because I like the GOP. I vote for the GOP because I fucking hate democrats
>>1286263well you could've started with that instead of pretending you're some sort of antisemitic crusader
>>1286266most of the leadership of the DNC are literally jews. the dems give just as much cash to the jews as the GOP. And I did lead with it retard. I said dems never did anything good ever and then you brought up ukraine and israel
>>1286253The only presidents to press Israel in the last fifty years have been democrats, dumb dumb.
>>1286267it's too bad you're a shameless lying faggot
>>1286263>I don't vote for the GOP because I like the GOP. I vote for the GOP because I fucking hate democratsMany such cases.
>>1286268dems literally give the jews all the cash the jews ever ask for, you retard. >>1286269current dem leadership>bidenjewish, he follows the pope who is also jewish>schumer majority leaderjewish >sanders head of the outreach committeejewish>baldwin senate caucus secretaryjewish>schatz senate caucus deputy secretaryjewish>5 jews in the cabinet>only jew currently on the scotus is a dem>33 jews in congress>31 of them are dems
/retardedonpurpose/
>>1285910Democrats told me I need more taxes though.WTF?
Seriously, how are Democrats coping?I thought trickledown didn't work, or insert whatever "tax cuts are bad mantra here".Dems are literally shitting on their voters who demand higher taxes.
>>1286269Every DemoKKKrat accusation is a confession.
>>1286270>>1286271>>1286277>>1286327>>1286341>>1286346There is no need to be upset.
>>1285910>The bill would expand child tax credits and lift the $1,600 cap on refundability and adjust it for inflation, with the biggest benefits going to multi-child families with low incomes. The bill also includes some business tax breaks, including for research and development and small-business expensing that were key to getting GOP support in the House.none of this directly benefits me so I am against it and voting for the GOP is literally in my economic interest