Kamala Harris claims her $1.7 trillion fiscal proposal will ‘pay for itself’

 Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY

Harris cited a “return on investment” and concluded “it pays for itself.”

VP and Democrat presidential pick Kamala Harris toured western Pennsylvania on Sunday in her tour bus, greeting Americans at staged campaign stops and searching for bags of Doritos at Sheetz. She stopped to take a few questions from press and offered an explanation for her recently revealed fiscal plans to fix prices for goods and federally regulate housing.

“You unveiled your economic policy last week,” a reporter began, “can you explain how you’re gonna pay for those and can you give us a sense of what other policies you’ll unveil going forward.” The proposals are estimated to increase the national debt by $1.7 trillion.

“Sure,” Harris answered, as Tim Walz, arm around his wife Gwen, and Harris‘ husband Doug Emhoff looked on. “You just look at it in terms of what we are talking about, for example around children.”

Harris has been criticized for being anti-child after she voted against Trump’s child tax credit when she was a senator in 2017. She broached the idea again, this time in favor of it, after Donald Trump and JD Vance vowed to bring it back. She has promised to extend the Earned Income Tax Credit.

“And the child tax credit and extending the EITC,” she continued, “that, at $6,000, for the first year of a child’s life. The return on that investment, in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for, will be tremendous. We’ve seen it when we did it, in the first year of our administration, we reduced child poverty by over 50 percent. So that’s a lot of the work.”