GOP Under Pressure to Deliver on Big Child Tax Credit Promises

By Chris Cioffi

Republicans made big promises on the campaign trail to boost the child tax credit. Now they’re under pressure to deliver.

The party wary of new social programs has been warmer to credits because they resemble tax cuts. And backers of boosting the child tax credit argue part of why the GOP won control of Washington in November was because it promised working- and middle-class families could keep more of their money.

“When you look at this and you realize that we are the party of parents, we’re the party of families, we’re the party of hard-working Americans,” said Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), who is lead sponsor of a bill that would increase a separate tax credit for child care. “We have to make good on that.”

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