Hillary Clinton’s campaign responded immediately Tuesday evening to Donald Trump’s assertion the Democratic nominee has no maternity leave plan, and posted a snarky tweet directing social media users to her months-old proposal.
Trump claimed falsely at a campaign event in Aston, Pa., Tuesday evening that Clinton “has no child care plan.”
The former secretary of state’s team responded immediately on Twitter, saying, “It’s literally right here.”
It’s literally right here: https://t.co/jxNWmHVuES https://t.co/1qlok816tO
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 14, 2016
Clinton’s plan, the details of which she revealed in May, calls for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for new parents. Her plan also caps child care costs at 10 percent of a family’s annual income.
Trump’s team teased his plan Tuesday morning. He went over the details later Tuesday evening during his rally in Pennsylvania.
The GOP nominee’s plan includes a provision that would allow individuals earning less than $250,000 per year and claiming up to four children and elderly dependents to deduct child care expenses from their income taxes, the Washington Examiner reported.
The same would apply to couples earning $500,000 annually.
The plan, which the GOP nominee’s team promises would not cost taxpayers a thing, also proposes an annual child care rebate for as much as $1,200 for low-income earners.
The Examiner reported:
The real estate mogul will also propose guaranteed paid maternity leave up to six weeks by revising the federal-state unemployment insurance program.
Trump will also call for the creation of new savings accounts for families to which parents could make tax-deductible contributions and apply the funds toward childcare, tuition and after-school enrichment programs. For lower-income families, he would have the government match the first $1,000 deposit into their Dependent Care Savings Account each year.
The Clinton camp trashed Trump’s plan even before his campaign rally Tuesday evening.
“After spending his entire career — and this entire campaign — demeaning women and dismissing the need to support working families, Donald Trump released a regressive and insufficient ‘maternity leave’ policy that is out-of-touch, half-baked and ignores the way Americans live and work today,” Clinton policy aide Maya Harris said in a statement.
“The lack of seriousness of this proposal is no surprise given his history of disrespecting women in the workplace and the fact there’s no evidence he ever provided paid family leave or childcare to his own employees,” the statement said.
