Trump said Clinton “calls you deplorable and irredeemable”, but referred to them as “hard-working American patriots who love their country and want a better future for all our people”. “Our support comes from every part of America and every walk of life”, he said.
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The Trump plan, which Ivanka Trump said Tuesday she helped craft, will also allow stay-at-home parents to make their child care expenses tax deductible.
Under Trump’s plan, tax-deductible childcare will be capped at the average cost of care for the state of residence and will only be available to individuals earning less than $250,000 (or $500,000 for those parents who file their tax returns jointly). She added: “Policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties, they should be the norm”.
Oxford Economics said its baseline scenario assumes Trump’s Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton triumphs in the November 8 vote and a split Congress emerges – between a Republican U.S. House of Representatives and a Democratic U.S. Senate – which results largely in a continuation of current policies.
Child-care bills have indeed outpaced rent and tuition costs in most US states.
Through changes in companies’ unemployment insurance policies, Trump would guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave to employees whose firms don’t offer leave already, his campaign said. Currently, parents can deduct no more than $3,000 for one child or $6,000 for two children or more from their federal income tax.
The Republican nominee notably avoided going after Clinton’s health, showing a message discipline that has been inconsistent throughout his campaign. “I’m very passionate about this”.
A Quinnipiac University poll last week said Clinton led 48 percent to 43 percent for Trump there, a reduction from her 10-point lead a month ago.
Later on, Trump tweeted that the rally was- what else – a massive success.
“After all the disgusting scandals that Hillary Clinton has been involved in and then she has the gut to call us deplorable”, said a third speaker.
Clinton, though, has questioned the possibility to achieving paid family leave in the current political climate.
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Since announcing the plan in May, Clinton has offered few details, including how it would be funded beyond raising taxes on wealthy Americans. She told CNN in 2014 that although she supports it, “I don’t think, politically, we could get it now”.
