Harris Campaign Attacks J.D. Vance Over His Support of Expanded Child Tax Credits

The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris gained attention this week for criticizing Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance’s endorsement of child tax credits. In retaliation, Vance accused the vice president of advocating an “extreme anti-family agenda.”

As reported by Breitbart, the verified account of Harris’ campaign shared a post on Friday featuring a video clip of Vance, who was recently chosen as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, discussing tax policy in 2021 with conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

“If you are making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you’ve got 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’s that simple,” Vance declared.

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“JD Vance says adults without children should have their taxes raised because we should ‘punish the things that we think are bad,'” the Harris team asserted. 

Ammar Moussa serves as Harris’s rapid response director, and she chimed in with a post of her own, writing, “JD Vance’s attacks on childless Americans is even vile. He called for HIGHER taxes on those without children.”

For his part, Vance responded by defending his position while also going after Harris, writing on X that “[m]ost Americans in both political parties support the child tax credit and lowering the tax burden for parents.”

“It’s disturbing that the Kamala campaign is running on such an extreme anti-family agenda that they’re taking radical positions like this,” the Ohio senator added.

Republican strategist Alex Bruesewitz also came to Vance’s defense, stating that the GOP’s vice presidential nominee wants “to make it more affordable for American families to have children.”

“Kamala Harris’ campaign has now come out against this. Why doesn’t Kamala want Americans to be able to afford to have children?” Bruesewitz asked before calling her stance “insane.”

In his recent post, Vance shared a link to an article on The National Pulse website that highlighted the bipartisan consensus on child tax credits.

The article noted that although President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan included expanded child tax credits, they are scheduled to expire next year despite efforts by lawmakers to make them permanent.

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