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During an all-women town hall appearance on Fox News Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was asked about his plans to lower child care costs for American families—and gave a predictably baffling nonanswer.
“You never heard of Ivanka, right?” Trump asked, before touting “the largest tax cuts in the history of our country” and then lying about how his daughter badgered him until he created child tax credits.
Trump’s tax cuts overwhelmingly benefited the richest Americans and large corporations—two groups that do not have to worry about the cost of child care. The child tax credit, meanwhile, was already in existence when Trump took office in January 2017. That credit was expanded to wealthier families, but not to the people who needed it the most.
This prevaricating is nothing new for the king of dis- and misinformation. Trump has been asked for months about how he plans to help American parents who aren’t billionaires, and repeatedly offered up nothing in response.
