Sen Blackburn & Tim Scott Calls Out Democrats’ Destructive Child Care Proposals at Press Conference

On 12/15/2021, during a press conference, GOP senators called out the Child care proposal in Biden’s Build Back Better bill. Sen. Blackburn called out the dangers of Biden’s Child Tax Credit, and Sen. Tim Scott said, “Imagine, if you will, turning your heat up or, likely, turning your heat down to conserve money because your utilities are up 25 percent. And then you wake up to the BBB—as I call it, the “Build Back Broker” plan—and you realize that the bone-crushing, life-changing, hope-stealing, job-killing aspects of the BBB include increasing your child care costs, as Senator Burr said, by $13,000.”

“To understand the actual impact of the $13,000, you have to first understand that the current cost is over $15,000. So, said in a way that everybody in our nation can understand, with median income around $34,000, you take taxes out, [and] the cost of child care is now more than your take-home pay. Literally, providing child care for one kid is more than the take-home pay of the average income in our nation. And somehow, we are to celebrate this notion that the government is here to do something for you, when in fact, you know the government is taking something from you.”