GOP senator wants to strip child tax credit from nonworking parents

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By Josh Israel -December 17, 2021 9:00 AM

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) wants to do away with the expanded child tax credit that has kept nearly 4 million kids out of poverty this year.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) criticized the Democrats' Build Back Better plan on Thursday, unhappy that it would extend a successful child tax credit expansion that has helped keep kids out of poverty.

In an interview with Tulsa news station Fox23, Lankford singled out the program as a key reason he opposes President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion climate change and caregiving infrastructure package.

"There's a child tax credit that already exists right now. They want to be able to long-term put in a child tax credit that's actually for individuals that don't have an income, so there are families not working at all and individuals that are not legally present in the country," Lankford said. "We want to leave the child tax credit as it is for working families, to be able to help families to be able to get up on their feet and to be able to keep going. But there's one entitlement after another in this new package, and we just think that's the wrong direction to go for the country."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-senator-james-lankford-oklahoma-expanded-child-tax-credit-build-back-better-american-rescue-plan-expiration/

Okay ass**** lets start with you, what have you done in the last year, nothing absolutely nothing.....your kind of wishy washy aren't you....you were going to oppose the election results and then when you and this republic came under attack you changed your mind, but you didn't change it when it comes to families in this country....you really hate families....

[Deuxcents]

1. I don't get the thinking process

About a lot of GOP talking points, politics, etc. but.. they are doing their best to strip women of reproductive health care. Just get that fetus born n then what..? Nothing for parental leave..nothing for child care..nothing for pre-K kids..no school lunches and on n on. And they want women to have more children? Why? What for? Now.. this guy wants to strip benefits if a parent doesn’t work taking care of the family. Only one word comes to mind and plenty of adjectives after but this is evil. Pure n simple dark hearted evil. I’ll stop before I really tell ya what I think

[turbinetree]

2. What is remarkable is that they don't change....

and like you said they are just evil....just outright evil....

[Baked Potato]

3. This thinking works for his constituents because:

Firstly, they are led to believe from birth that only “those people” accept handouts.

And, if God wanted you to be wealthy you would be.

So, when Democrats give Republican needy constituents money, it is accepted and appreciated by them but willingly given up when their leaders remind them they shouldn’t take handouts, like “those people.”

[Poiuyt]

4. These people must really hate human beings

[WHITT]

5. Ass Backwards As Usual

[Mad_Machine76]

6. Lemme just say this:

There are no "non-working" parents!

[Mary in S. Carolina]

7. Exactly

and don't forget that many in our military grew up needing the tax credits.