An Update on Federal School Vouchers
The Senate passed a plan, so did the House - what's next?
Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress seem determined to enact some sort of federal school voucher scheme.
So far, they can’t quite agree - but, the House and Senate are not too far apart.
It seems likely that if a version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” passes, federal school vouchers will become a reality in some form.
Peter Greene offers an update:
The federal voucher is proposed as a tax credit scholarship, meaning that every dollar taxpayers put into the voucher program is a dollar of revenue the federal government does not collect (and for which each donor gets a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, a deal unlike any available for other donation credits). The House version has a cap on the amount of tax revenue the government will give up; the Senate version has no such cap.
However, the House version allowed donors to give up to 10% of their income to the voucher program, the Senate version limits donations to no more than $1,700.
Depending on the version of the plan that passes, the total cost to taxpayers could exceed $20 billion.
One way to stop this? Ask House members to oppose the BBB.