Donald Trump new child care plan (LIVESTREAM)
Donald Trump is releasing the proposal for child care. According to the Washington Post,
ASTON, Pa. — Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled several policy proposals for lowering child-care costs that were crafted in part by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, including a plan to guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave that marks a striking departure from GOP orthodoxy.
Conservative Republicans, in particular, have long seen a mandated expansion of the social safety net as anathema to their attempts to shrink government spending and give companies more control over their leave policies.
In a fact-sheet released ahead of a planned speech here, the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign proposed ensuring six weeks of paid maternity leave to mothers who do not already receive leave from their employer.
Campaign officials said the program wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything more; instead, it would be financed through savings achieved by eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program. The plan would apply to mothers and not be transferable to fathers.
Trump also laid out specific plans for enabling parents to deduct the cost of child-care expenses from their income taxes. Trump first mentioned allowing parents to “fully deduct” expenses last month when he announced his economic agenda in Detroit. Some of these expenses are already deductible under the law.
In its fact-sheet, the Trump campaign proposed to “rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents.”