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Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill Thursday on to expand the child tax credit and provide some tax breaks for businesses, all but sinking it for the rest of the year.
The vote was 48-44, with the vast majority of GOP senators voting against it. Democrats voted in favor, with the exception of two independents who caucus with Democrats: Sens. Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin. And just three Republicans voted for it: Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.
“This should be a no-brainer,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. “Right now, the only ones standing in the way are Senate Republicans. Everyone else, even House Republicans, are for this.” Before it failed, Schumer switched his vote to “no” to maintain his option to bring up the bill again.
“Today, because of Republicans, American families lost,” Schumer said after the vote.
The Senate GOP opposition to the bill, led by Mike Crapo of Idaho, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, who is aligned with party leadership. He told NBC News this week that the bill is inadequately funded and doesn’t have enough conditions on the child tax credit to win his vote.
On Thursday, Crapo called it a “senseless show vote” that Senate Republicans weren’t properly consulted on and said the generous provisions meant the bill “isn’t tax relief — it’s a subsidy.”
Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill Thursday on to expand the child tax credit and provide some tax breaks for businesses, all but sinking it for the rest of the year.
The vote was 48-44, with the vast majority of GOP senators voting against it. Democrats voted in favor, with the exception of two independents who caucus with Democrats: Sens. Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin. And just three Republicans voted for it: Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.
“This should be a no-brainer,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. “Right now, the only ones standing in the way are Senate Republicans. Everyone else, even House Republicans, are for this.” Before it failed, Schumer switched his vote to “no” to maintain his option to bring up the bill again.
“Today, because of Republicans, American families lost,” Schumer said after the vote.
The Senate GOP opposition to the bill, led by Mike Crapo of Idaho, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, who is aligned with party leadership. He told NBC News this week that the bill is inadequately funded and doesn’t have enough conditions on the child tax credit to win his vote.
On Thursday, Crapo called it a “senseless show vote” that Senate Republicans weren’t properly consulted on and said the generous provisions meant the bill “isn’t tax relief — it’s a subsidy.”
