House passes bipartisan bill expanding child tax credit and breaks for business

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• Biden Social and Climate Bill Gets a Boost as Nonpartisan Panel Says Plan Is Unlikely to Add to Long-Term Deficits
• More Biden Bill Coverage
• Selling TikTok won't be so easy
• House passes bipartisan tax bill that would expand child tax credit
• Utah couple accidentally ships pet cat in Amazon return package: ‘We had no idea'
• House approves major bipartisan tax bill to expand Child Tax Credit, business breaks

The bill also provides expedited tax relief for communities hit by disasters and improves low-income housing tax credits by raising the ceiling by 12.5% through 2025. Specifically, the bill hikes the maximum child tax credit from $1,600 to $2,000 per child through 2025. Most of the child tax credit would benefit 15 million children from lower-income families.

Biden Social and Climate Bill Gets a Boost as Nonpartisan Panel Says Plan Is Unlikely to Add to Long-Term Deficits

The campaign is led by a committee that includes the Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles (ACT-LA), the home caregivers union SEIU 2015, and the hotel workers union Unite Here 11. It is backed by homeless service providers including PATH — People Assisting the Homeless — as well as more than 100 other groups, proponents said. It would also create tens of thousands of construction jobs, including long-term ones, they said. The legislation gave TikTok a six-month window to find a buyer, which some senators said was too little time. The sentiment was echoed by Kate Ruane, who runs the Center for Democracy & Technology's Free Expression Project, who said the law is unconstitutional and a blow to free expression in the U.S. In a video posted to the platform soon after Biden signed the bill, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said he is confident TikTok would win in court, adding that users should not expect issues with the app in the meantime.

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Johnson called the tax cut bill on the House floor important, bipartisan legislation that would revive “conservative pro-growth tax reform.” He also said it would bring an early end to a “wasteful COVID-era program” that has been plagued with fraud. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., threw his support behind the bill on Wednesday morning. He spent part of the previous day meeting with GOP lawmakers who were concerned about particular features of the bill, namely the expanded child tax credit. Some were also unhappy that it failed to address the $10,000 cap on the total amount of property taxes or state or local taxes that consumers can deduct on their federal returns.

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Selling TikTok won't be so easy

"Congress is acting to prevent foreign adversaries from conducting espionage, surveillance, maligned operations, harming vulnerable Americans, our servicemen and women, and our U.S. government personnel." "Congress is not acting to punish ByteDance, TikTok or any other individual company," said Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon. President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban. "In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform," he wrote on X. "Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for."

House passes bipartisan tax bill that would expand child tax credit

The Finance Committee released new data from the Treasury Department “on the situation facing small businesses if the Senate doesn’t pass this bill,” Wyden told The Hill. 7024, the tax bill may be combined with the Senate-passed Radiation Exposure Compensation (RECA) Reauthorization Act. The stand-alone bill would only require a simple majority for passage if the rule is adopted on the floor. Internal divisions within the Republican Party came to a head Tuesday when a group of New Yorkers threatened to block an unrelated rule on the floor. The move prompted a flurry of closed-door meetings between House leadership, the Ways and Means Committee, blue-state Republicans and members of the House Freedom Caucus, who had separate issues with the package related to immigration.

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"That’s much more than the gross cost of the temporary provisions being considered now (which is about $80 billion) and would require additional offsets if we want to avoid raising the deficit." Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden's first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis. The credit was $3,600 annually for children under age 6 and $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17. But most lawmakers were willing to take what gains they could get through the compromise bill. Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden’s first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis. The bill keeps a threshold of a household having $2,500 in income to be eligible for refundable child tax credit payments.

When in full effect, it could lift at least half a million children out of poverty, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Laura Raymond, director of ACT-LA, who is one of the chairs of the House LA campaign steering committee, says the measure grew out of a desire by homeless services organizations to take bigger steps — after seeing  homelessness continue to grow. The proposed ordinance would also create a Citizen Oversight Committee to develop funding guidelines, conduct housing-needs assessments, monitor program implementation and audit fund expenditures.

"While I appreciate the bipartisan effort that went into this tax cut package and support many of the provisions included, I cannot sign into law a bill that jeopardizes our state's future fiscal stability," Kelly said in her veto message. "I have said repeatedly that I will do everything in my power to prevent our state from the fiscal mismanagement of the previous administration." Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the Legislature's large, bipartisan tax cut package on Wednesday, setting up a showdown over tax cuts in the waning days of the legislative session. At the center of Democrats’ more than $2 trillion proposal is a series of significant changes to federal tax laws. The party’s ideas stem from a belief — aired repeatedly by Biden in recent weeks — that wealthy Americans and profitable corporations could be paying more toward vast improvements in the nation’s health care, education, climate, child care and immigration programs.

House passes sweeping, bipartisan bill with expanded child tax credit and business tax breaks

While repeal of the so-called SALT deduction cap is a priority for several Northeastern state lawmakers, progressives wanted to prevent the super-wealthy from benefiting. Under the plan, the $10,000 deduction cap would be lifted to $72,500 for 10 years, starting with the 2021 tax year. On another remaining issue, Democrats are still arguing over a plan partly to do away with the $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions that particularly hits high-tax states and was enacted as part of the Trump-era 2017 tax plan. Much of package's cost would be covered with higher taxes on wealthier Americans, those earning more than $400,000 a year, and a 5% surtax would be added on those making over $10 million annually. Large corporations would face a new 15% minimum tax in an effort to stop big businesses from claiming so many deductions that they end up paying zero in taxes. Witha flurry of late adjustments, the Democrats added key provisions in recent days — adding back anew paid family leave program, work permits for immigrantsand changes to state and local tax deductions.

The big package would provide large numbers of Americans with assistance to pay for health care, raising children and caring for elderly people at home. That plan included controversial tax breaks opposed by Kelly that are designed to benefit anti-abortion counseling centers, also known as pregnancy resource centers. The ideas stop short of repealing the tax cuts enacted under President Donald Trump four years ago, a pledge that Biden and his fellow Democrats made repeatedly throughout the 2020 election.

"Kansans need and deserve tax relief and Governor Kelly isn't serious when she says she wants to provide it," Hawkins said. "As your elected representatives, we're going to work to override her veto and get your money back to you." Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita and the ranking Democrat on the tax committee, had a similar view. He called it good tax policy and likened the difference in cost to the difference in rounding when budgeting. The bill now heads to the Senate where its supporters were looking for a strong vote in the House to pressure the chamber to move quickly to pass the package. Wyden has vowed to push to get the bill enacted quickly despite misgivings from Republicans, who have yet to publicly back the legislation.

The move has made the GOP House leadership's job of steering legislation through the chamber increasingly difficult, enabling a small group of detractors to effectively shut down the floor at their discretion. Proponents argue that the funds generated, which would be ongoing, are needed because rental costs are rising and tenant evictions are widespread. They point to the high number of households who are cost-burdened because they pay more than 30% of their income on rent.

They say banning TikTok is the wrong way to address concerns about the practices of social media companies. Investor groups and major tech giants including Microsoft, Apple and Oracle will consider bids, according to Ives. The bill itself gives ByteDance nearly a year to divest TikTok – nine months, with a possible three-month extension – far longer than the six-month deadline the original House measure proposed.

Alongside the slimmer roads-bridges-and-broadband package, it adds up to Biden's answer to his campaign promise to rebuild the country from the COVID-19 crisis and confront a changing economy. Rep. Adam Smith, R-Weskan and the Republican chair of the tax committee, said he is not concerned about the difference of $36 million a year five years from now. Will Lawrence, the governor's chief of staff, visited the House Democratic caucus Friday morning to urge them to side with Kelly.

Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden’s first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis. Households benefitting as a result of the changes in the child tax credit would see an average tax cut of $680 in the first year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. The tax breaks in the agreement would be paid for by eliminating the employee retention tax credit. That was a pandemic-era provision to help businesses keep employees on payroll, but has since been found to be rife with fraud. Meanwhile, several conservatives including members from the far-right House Freedom Caucus (Reps. Bob Good and Byron Donalds) criticized the bill for expanding the child tax credit.

Still, the a roughly $79 billion package faces a steep climb in the Senate, where Republicans are demanding the bill clear additional hurdles. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., called the bill "how the bipartisan agreement came together."