Sen. Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioFlorida senators pushing to keep Daylight Savings Time during pandemic Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE (R-Fla.) said Thursday that the House GOP tax plan’s increase to the child tax credit doesn’t do enough to help working families.

Rubio said on Twitter that the House GOP’s proposed $600 increase to the child tax credit “doesn’t achieve our & [President Trump’s] goal of helping working families.”

The House GOP tax plan released Thursday calls for increasing the child tax credit to $1,600 per child from $1,000.

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Rubio had previously called for increasing the child tax credit to $2,500 per child, pitching the idea in a Breitbart opinion piece. He and Sen. Mike Lee Michael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell shores up GOP support for coronavirus package McConnell tries to unify GOP Davis: The Hall of Shame for GOP senators who remain silent on Donald Trump MORE (R-Utah) have also introduced a Senate bill to increase the deduction.

Rubio and several other GOP lawmakers also met in June with Ivanka Trump, a senior White House adviser and the president's older daughter, about the child tax credit and paid family leave.

The House GOP tax plan would consolidate the current seven brackets to four, with the top tax rate staying at 39.6 percent. The other individual rates in the bill are 12 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent.

The standard deduction is nearly doubled, and the bill also creates a $300 credit for expenses related to care of parents and non-child dependents. The bill preserves the child and dependent care credit and the earned income tax credit.