How the credit works decides who gets it: the credit for children in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act still ramps up with each dollar a parent earns, so a low-wage family collects only part of it, and Columbia University researchers count 29,000 children in Florida's 27th District, 23% of them, below the full amount. Maria Elvira Salazar represents that district; she cast a yes on the law on July 3, 2025, her May vote was one the House version could not spare, and her April 16, 2026 yes went to H.Res. 1156, a resolution that lauds the law for steps that "permanently expand the child tax credit."
Two other features cut families out. Children lose the credit when no parent on the return holds a Social Security number valid for work, and the expanded child care credit stays nonrefundable, so parents with little income tax liability get little or nothing toward day care; statewide, Florida has 1,201,000 children short of the full child tax credit.
Maria Elvira Salazar's Votes on the Child Tax Credit and the Child Care Credit
- Child Tax Credit Phase-In and Social Security Number Rule: Salazar Voted For, Then Praised, a Credit That Over a Quarter of Children Cannot Fully Claim. On July 3, 2025, Maria Elvira Salazar was a yes as the final bill passed 218 to 214, following her part in the one-vote House margin of 215 to 214. In April 2026 she added her vote to H.Res. 1156, the House resolution saluting the law's tax provisions. With the phase-in left in place, "more than 1 in 4 children (28%) under age 17 will be ineligible for the full Child Tax Credit," by the Columbia center's estimate, and a married couple raising two kids reaches the full credit only at $41,500 of income. A separate provision "strips the Child Tax Credit from the approximately 2.6 million or more children" with no parent on the return holding a Social Security number currently valid for work, the National Immigration Law Center warned.
- Child and Dependent Care Credit: Salazar Voted for a Nonrefundable Expansion That Gives Nothing to Families Under $30,000, in July 2025. The child and dependent care credit, which offsets what parents pay for day care and after-school programs, got bigger under the law Maria Elvira Salazar voted for, yet it still works only against income tax already owed. So "families making less than $30,000 won't benefit at all," in the National Women's Law Center's analysis; drawing on Tax Policy Center numbers, it says a larger credit reaches 8.5 percent of families with children and that almost 80 percent of the added benefit goes to households above $66,000.
What the Family Tax Credits Maria Elvira Salazar Voted For Mean for Children in Florida's 27th District and Statewide
- Low parental pay keeps 29,000 children in Florida's 27th District from the full credit. Under the final law, Columbia's researchers place 29,000 children living in Florida's 27th District, 23% of the district's kids, below the full credit on account of low parental earnings. Think of the child of a cashier or a home health aide, for instance: the kind of family for whom the full credit would matter most.
- 1.2 million Florida children are shut out of the full credit statewide. Statewide the count is 1,201,000 Florida children, 29%, left with a partial credit or none because their parents' pay is too low, a larger share than the 28% national rate. In each of those homes, that is hundreds of dollars a year less for rent, school clothes and groceries.
- 51,000 Florida parents of teens faced a risk of losing SNAP in CBPP's June 2025 Senate-plan estimate. Parents of teens also came inside SNAP's time limit under the law. In June 2025, sizing up a Senate Agriculture Committee plan that reached the same parents, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities counted 51,000 Florida parents with a youngest child of 14 or older at risk of losing food aid, on top of whatever tax credit they miss.
Frequently Asked Questions About Maria Elvira Salazar on Child care and families
What is Maria Elvira Salazar's record on child care and families under Trump?
Maria Elvira Salazar voted for the 2025 law; it hands 29,000 children in Florida's 27th District a reduced child tax credit or none for want of higher parental pay, and its day care credit does nothing for families earning under $30,000. The House version needed her vote, and in April 2026 her yes went to a resolution lauding the law's tax provisions. Across Florida, 1,201,000 children fall below the full credit.
What happens to the child tax credit for a Miami-Dade family whose parents have no Social Security numbers, under the law Maria Elvira Salazar voted for?
They lose it: under the law Maria Elvira Salazar voted for, a joint return needs one spouse with a work-valid Social Security number, and the National Immigration Law Center says that rule strips the credit from about 2.6 million children nationwide, among them children whose parents file and pay taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. A Florida family in that position pays income tax and gets no child tax credit at all.
What does a Florida couple have to earn before Maria Elvira Salazar's child tax credit pays in full?
A married couple with two children needs $41,500 or more in income to collect the full credit Maria Elvira Salazar voted for, Columbia's poverty researchers found, and 39% of Latino children nationally fall below that bar. In Florida, the share of children below it is 29%.
Last updated: 2026-10-27