The Latest: Panel blocks bigger benefits for raising kids
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Republican tax overhaul legislation (all times local):
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The House Ways and Means Committee has blocked Democratic efforts to provide bigger tax benefits for parents' costs of raising children and adopting kids.
The panel voted 23-16 along party lines to reject Democratic amendments that would have made changes to the Republican tax plan. The committee is working on legislation that Republicans are driving to push through Congress and to President Donald Trump's desk by Christmas.
The GOP legislation, which would bring the first major overhaul of the U.S. tax system in 30 years, repeals the adoption tax credit.
It also includes an increase in the child tax credit, from $1,000 to $1,600 per child.