Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024

Floor Speech

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Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I always support good-faith efforts to improve our Nation's tax code.

I don't oppose reasonable benefits for the American businesses that drive economic growth and strength. However, I can't support a bill that provides generous tax breaks to large corporations while offering only minimal tax relief for working families.

Republicans have refused again and again to enact Democratic tax writers' proposals that would enact a more generous version of the poverty-busting child tax credit.

Under President Biden's American Rescue Plan, the child tax credit lifted millions of kids out of poverty and helped their families buy groceries, pay for healthcare, and cover their rent.

As a mother and a legislator, I will never stop fighting on behalf of our country's poorest babies and children and the moms, dads, grandparents, and other caregivers who raise them.

Unfortunately, I have to vote against this tax scheme because I, for one, recognize that working families matter, or should matter, just as much as businesses.

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