Democrats adjust language on child tax credit in relief bill

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Democrats adjust language on child tax credit in relief bill
By Naomi Jagoda - 02/26/21 06:13 PM EST

House Democrats are slightly modifying language in a provision on the child tax credit in their coronavirus relief package, in an effort to prevent the Senate parliamentarian from ruling against the provision.

The original version of the relief package directs the Treasury Department to make advance payments of the child tax credit on a monthly basis. A manager’s amendment to the bill replaces the word “monthly” with “periodic.”

The House is expected to pass the relief package late Friday. From there, it goes to the Senate, where it will need to comply with the chamber’s budget-reconciliation rules in order to be able to pass with a simple-majority vote. These rules include that provisions have to be related to the federal budget, and they can’t have an impact on the budget that’s “merely incidental” to the non-budgetary aspects of the provision.


The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, is tasked with determining whether provisions in the relief measure follow the budget rules. On Thursday, she ruled that a provision to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour didn’t meet the rules.

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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/540772-democrats-adjust-language-on-child-tax-credit-in-relief-bill

[christian]

Periodic, like once every year, decades, 12th of never, election cycle?  Just think of it as adjusted to period like the Chinese stimulus bill.