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IgnoredSocial Security, Medicare & Retirement

I'm announcing a new policy today that I will support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one. It's about time that they were recognized.

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IgnoredFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

Verified. The PolitiFact MAGA-Meter promise page is reachable and confirms this exact promise ("Support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one"). PolitiFact's own category for it is "Stalled," which maps to IGNORED here: Trump had a clear, direct opportunity to act — the large tax-and-spending law he signed July 4, 2025 carried several OTHER campaign tax pledges (no tax on tips, overtime, Social Security) but did NOT include a caregiver tax credit — and he took no action on it. Both cited quotes appear verbatim on the page: "Despite signing a large tax and spending bill on July 4 that included other tax breaks he'd campaigned on, the bill did not include a caregiver tax credit," and "Trump has not weighed in on the pending caregiver credit bills." PolitiFact adds his last reference to a caregiver credit was a November 2024 Gastonia, NC campaign rally. This supports IGNORED rather than ATTEMPTED (no evidence of a failed attempt to include it) and rules out CHAMPIONED/FULL/PARTIAL (no legislative action, sponsorship, or public backing). The second source, Congress.gov H.R.2036, returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch (Congress.gov's routine anti-bot block, not a dead or fabricated link); its substance was independently confirmed via Congress.gov's own search listing plus GovTrack, Tax Notes, AARP, and the bill sponsors' press release — H.R.2036 IS the bipartisan "Credit for Caring Act of 2025," amending the IRC of 1986 to provide a nonrefundable ~$5,000 working-family-caregiver credit, introduced March 11, 2025, not enacted. The cited Congress.gov "quote" was a paraphrase rather than verbatim, but accurate. The outcome does not overstate the evidence; it rests on the fully reachable, verbatim-verified PolitiFact source. Confidence held at 0.7 because his term continues and the bipartisan bill remains technically pending, leaving a small chance of future action, but his signature legislative window closed without it and he has been silent since the campaign.

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