Senate kills Rubio-Lee effort to extend child tax credit to low-income families
by Joseph Lawler | Dec 1, 2017, 11:18 PM
Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee failed late Friday night to expand the child tax credit for low-income families in the tax bill as it moved toward passage, as the vast majority of Democrats and Republicans voted to rule their amendment out of order.
The two Republicans had offered language to expand the bill’s $2,000 child tax credit to low-income families by making it refundable against payroll tax liability. The amendment failed 29-71, with 20 Republicans voting in favor.
Rubio, R-Fla., and Lee, R-Utah, had not said publicly how they would vote on the underlying bill if their amendment failed.
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