Texture Farm. It's out. It's happening. Yeah, it's happening. It's happening.

Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds from the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias.

Joining me today I have two guys named Dylan. We've got Dylan Matthews, who is visiting us from

the New York office and Dylan Scott. It's a lot of Dylan's, you know, a little less

less diversity. We're all wearing glasses. But it's a great crew to talk about the Texture

Farm bill that was unveiled to much fanfare yesterday by House Republicans after a lot of anticipation.

And I have to say there was a lot of leaks. I mean, there had been a lot of discussion about this.

This was not exactly like the tightly held secret that the healthcare bill was.

But I was still kind of surprised with what came out. It wasn't, it tracked the broad themes

of the framework, but it was not exactly what I had expected. And Dylan Matthews, you

you know, good piece up today about it. It's sort of surprisingly bad.

Right. So I should say upfront, like I'm not the target audience for a Republican tax bill. I

don't think it's that important to cut marginal rates on rich people or give tax relief to corporations.

But there were a couple of things that I was still sort of excited about in the overall framework.

I think the main thing was there was really a possibility of them not just expanding the

child tax credit, but making it more accessible to poor families. The way that the credit set up now,

there's sort of a sort of complicated formula to decide if you get some of it back. If you don't

have an income tax liability, like most poor families don't. And Mark Harubio and Mike Lee,

and importantly, Ivanka Trump had been trying really hard to expand that and allow more poor families

to claim more of the credit. That did not make it into the final bill. What did make it in

is this provision requiring social security numbers for people who claim the child tax credit,

which is a thing that sounds reasonable until you remember that there are undocumented immigrants

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