At bipartisan dinner, the main course is tax reform
Ivanka Trump hosts senators at the White House to spotlight her father’s proposal.
WASHINGTON — It’s not just President Trump who’s pushing tax cuts. His daughter Ivanka hosted senators for dinner Monday as the White House tries to build support for Trump’s proposed tax reform.
Half a dozen Republicans and Democrats, including Sens. Joe Manchin III (DW.Va.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Heidi Heitkamp (DN.D.), dined on soup, a main course and chocolate ice cream with Ivanka Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and talked tax cuts.
Congress is working on draft legislation based on a Republican proposal to reduce corporate and individual tax rates in what the president calls the largest tax cuts in history.
The White House has been specifically targeting red-state Democrats to back the Republican plan, though their support is not certain.
Ivanka Trump has advocated for increasing the tax credit that parents can take for each child, but the details remain a work in progress.
The Republican tax overhaul outline calls for “significantly” increasing the existing $1,000 per child tax credit, but no specific figure has been released. The plan also calls for making the credit more widely available by increasing the income levels at which the credit begins to phase out.
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