{"id":15085,"date":"2025-02-02T02:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2025-02-02T03:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:56:36","slug":"republican-bill-would-block-illegal-immigrants-from-receiving-tax-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15085","title":{"rendered":"Republican Bill Would Block Illegal Immigrants From Receiving Tax Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/republican-bill-would-block-illegal-immigrants-from-receiving-tax-breaks\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/republican-bill-would-block-illegal-immigrants-from-receiving-tax-breaks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pjimage-2022-03-31T004917.324.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Illegal Border Crossings Buses Carrying Migrants Northern Border Illegal Border Crossers Immigration Parole Illegal Immigrant Convicts Biden\u2019s Immigration Policies\" title=\"brad schimel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer receive child tax credits or tax breaks for low income earners if the Safeguarding American Workers\u2019 Benefits Act becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>Reintroduced by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., the legislation would require both parents and children to have Social Security numbers that are valid for employment in order to claim the Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Tax Credit.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., has introduced a companion bill in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation estimates Hyde-Smith&#8217;s legislation could save <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydesmith.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/Safeguarding%20American%20Workers%20Benefits%20Act%20-%20Text%20119th.pdf\">nearly $28 billion<\/a> over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome President [Donald] Trump\u2019s intent to target wasteful spending and enforce immigration laws,\u201d Hyde-Smith said Tuesday. \u201cThe environment is certainly friendlier now to adopt legislation that saves billions of dollars and ensures that only U.S citizens and persons authorized to work can benefit from the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the CTC and EITC should only go to those with SSNs valid for employment, certain loopholes allow some people who do not meet the requirements to receive the federal benefits. The bill would close those loopholes.<\/p>\n<p>Only weeks into Trump\u2019s second presidency, Republicans and the Commander in Chief have already implemented or introduced other anti-illegal immigration measures, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_cec75464-d84b-11ef-9251-fbc48735699f.html\">reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy<\/a> and authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_82223158-dcfe-11ef-a6d0-6b06908f30be.html\">to round up and deport migrants<\/a> residing in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Safeguarding American Workers\u2019 Benefits Act is also part of Republicans\u2019 federal cost-cutting efforts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_b557f934-d9b8-11ef-8490-83aaa0f6ff8b.html\">to finance the extension of Trump\u2019s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act<\/a>, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost $4.6 trillion over the next ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will work to ensure that [the] Safeguarding American Workers\u2019 Benefits Act is considered as part of the debate to extend and improve on the Trump tax cuts that expire this year,\u201d Hyde-Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/republican-bill-would-block-illegal-immigrants-from-receiving-tax-breaks\/ Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}