In response to JD Vance skipping today’s Senate vote on expanding the child tax credit, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“As it turns out, JD Vance doesn’t care about Americans with children or without. After viciously attacking women and families and disparaging Americans who don’t have children, Vance can’t even be bothered to show up to work today to vote on critical legislation to expand the child tax credit to help Americans with children make ends meet. Vance — who has previously called policies to support child care a ‘war against normal people’ — has shown he doesn’t actually care about supporting working families, he only cares about political stunts to push his extreme Project 2025 agenda with Donald Trump. When the American people vote in November, they’ll remember that when Vance had a chance to show up for working families, he was nowhere to be found.”

NEW: JD Vance is skipping today’s vote on legislation to help children and families.

NBC News: “The vote on the bill, which would provide the most financial help to multi-child households, comes as Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the GOP vice presidential nominee, faces heated criticism over past remarks disparaging ‘childless cat ladies’ and questioning the character of women who choose not to have kids. Vance is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Thursday and is expected to miss the vote. His office didn’t say how he’d vote if he were in Washington.”

Today’s vote is just another example of Vance’s anti-working family record, which includes calling policies that support families and child care a “war against normal people.”

Vance: “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.”

Vance: “It turns out that normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”

Vance backs Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that includes giving handouts to the ultra-wealthy (again) at the expense of working Americans and risks supercharging inflation.

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

Vance on Trump’s plan that would raise tariffs and raise costs for hardworking Americans: “This is a fascinating proposal and we could talk for a while about it.”

Trump: “You’re all people that have a lot of money … You’re rich as hell. … We’re gonna give you tax cuts.”

Vanity Fair: “Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report”

CBS News: “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind”

The Guardian: “Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Axios: “Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump’s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.”

Project 2025: “The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.”

The Atlantic: “Trump’s Plan to Supercharge Inflation”

Vance has repeatedly attacked and disparaged Americans who don’t have children, and wants to undermine their role in our democracy.

CNN: “Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous ‘childless cat lady’ remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders ‘childless sociopath’ who ‘don’t have a direct stake in this country.’

“In November 2020, Vance said on a conservative podcast that childless Americans, especially those in the country’s ‘leadership class,’ were ‘more sociopathic’ than those with children and made the country ‘less mentally stable.’ Vance added that the ‘most deranged’ and ‘most psychotic’ commentators on Twitter – now known as X – were typically childless.”

Pat Rynard, Courier Newsroom: “JD Vance says Americans without children should ‘face the consequences and the reality’ and not get ‘nearly the same voice’ in democracy”

The Federalist: “J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the ‘childless left’ whom he said have ‘no physical commitment to the future of this country’ in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy…

“‘Why is this just a normal fact of…  life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?’

“‘The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds,’ Vance noted. ‘Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.’ He continued, asking, ‘Doesn’t this mean that nonparents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions?’ He answered with a simple ‘yes’ after saying ‘the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects’ would criticize him.”

ABC News: “[Vance] suggested that the country needed to ‘reward the things that we think are good’ and ‘punish the things that we think are bad’ — before suggesting that individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children.

Vance suggested women should stay in violent marriages.

Vance: “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’”

Vice: “JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced”

An anti-choice extremist, Vance said he’d like “abortion to be illegal nationally,” celebrated when Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, attacked exceptions for rape and incest, and more.

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

“JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Manu Raju, CNN: “J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation … ‘We can’t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,’ he told us.”

Newsweek: “J.D. Vance Backs ‘National Standard’ for Abortions”

Washington Post: “Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws”

Daily Beast: “J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest—and dismissed those catalysts as ‘inconvenient.’”

Vance: “I think that what I really think on – so first of all, the Dobbs decision, everybody knows, overruled Roe v. Wade – I think that was the right decision.”

Vance also wants law enforcement to have access to women’s medical records so they can enforce extreme abortion bans.

Letter Signed by Vance and Other Members of Congress: “Abortion is not health care—it is a brutal act that destroys the life of an unborn child and hurts women. Congress did not authorize HHS to extend special provisions for abortion such as these under the guise of ‘health care.’ The Proposed Rule unlawfully thwarts the enforcement of compassionate laws protecting unborn children and their mothers, and directs health care providers to defy lawful court orders and search warrants.”