US: Expanding the child tax credit was a Democratic dream come true — but it could be on the chopping block (Includes video)
CNN – September 29, 2021
When Democrats passed a one-year expansion of the child tax credit in their Covid relief bill earlier this year, it was seen by many in the party as a triumph, a move that could reduce child poverty by nearly half this year. Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia had been lobbying the Biden transition team and then administration to expand the child tax credit and make it fully refundable to ensure the lowest income Americans would receive the benefit. Now they are focused on making sure that enhanced child tax credit and the new monthly payment distribution method are extended until 2025 and its full refundability is made permanent by including those items in their party’s massive economic package currently being negotiated and crafted by congressional Democrats and the White House.
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