Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign made headlines this week by attacking Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance over his support of child tax credits.

In response, Vance countered that the vice president is guilty of promoting an "extreme anti-family agenda." 

Vance: Parents should "pay a different, lower tax rate"

According to Breitbart, the official X account of Harris' campaign put up a post on Friday that contained a video clip of Vance, who was selected earlier this month to serve as former President Donald Trump's running mate.

The footage shows Vance speaking with conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk discussing tax policy in 2021.

"If you are making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you’ve got three kids, you should pay a different, lower tax rate than if you are making the same amount of money and you don't have any kids. It's that simple," Vance declared.

JD Vance says adults without children should have their taxes raised because we should "punish the things that we think are bad" pic.twitter.com/25PPL9EwRU

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 26, 2024

Harris campaign official accuses Vance of attacking "childless Americans"

Ammar Moussa serves as Harris's rapid response director, and she chimed in with a post of her own, writing, "JD Vance's attacks on childless Americans is even vile. He called for HIGHER taxes on those without children."

For his part, Vance responded by defending his position while also going after Harris, writing on X that "[m]ost Americans in both political parties support the child tax credit and lowering the tax burden for parents."

"It's disturbing that the Kamala campaign is running on such an extreme anti-family agenda that they're taking radical positions like this," the Ohio senator added.

Republican strategist Alex Bruesewitz also came to Vance's defense, stating that the GOP's vice presidential nominee wants "to make it more affordable for American families to have children."

Biden's American Rescue Plan temporarily expanded child tax credits

"Kamala Harris’ campaign has now come out against this. Why doesn’t Kamala want Americans to be able to afford to have children?" Bruesewitz asked before calling her stance "insane."

In his X post, Vance linked to an article published by The National Pulse website which noted how support for child tax credits has hitherto been a bipartisan consensus.

In fact, expanded child tax credits were a feature of President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan but are set to expire next year despite efforts by lawmakers to make them permanent.