Child tax credit expiration adds pressure for Democrats

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Child tax credit expiration adds pressure for Democrats
By Naomi Jagoda and Aris Folley - 12/12/21 08:00 AM EST

Democrats are feeling an increased sense of urgency to quickly get President Biden’s social spending and climate package across the finish line, due to the pending expiration of the expanded child tax credit at the end of the year.

Absent congressional action, the IRS will make its last monthly child tax credit payment on Dec. 15. Democrats see the monthly payments as critical to reducing child poverty and want to prevent a lapse.

The key obstacle is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has expressed a reluctance to passing the social-spending package this year. Despite Manchin’s hesitancy, key Democrats are insistent that the expanded child tax credit won’t expire.

“We are not going to have a lapse in payments. That’s too important,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/585380-child-tax-credit-expiration-adds-pressure-for-democrats

[Kamaji]

If it's such a critical priority (it isn't), then pass it as a stand-alone measure.

That they won't simply indicates that they're (ab)using poor children for the sake of getting a boondoggle of a bill across the finish line.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If it's such a critical priority (it isn't), then pass it as a stand-alone measure.

That they won't simply indicates that they're (ab)using poor children for the sake of getting a boondoggle of a bill across the finish line.

Yep, it is symptomatic of today's broken Congress that no budget is debated or even passed, and huge monstrosities are made law that have hundreds of carve-outs within them to implement certain agendas.

It is a great morass that needs weeding out.