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"Right now is the moment, and I'm not sure when windows like this will open again," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said.The Democrats say just a five-year expansion could see the program expiring with less supportive Republicans controlling the House, Senate or White House. The administration, as well as lawmakers in both chambers, have touted the tax credit's ability to lift children, particularly those in communities of color, from poverty., a nonpartisan research group, the child tax credit passed in the COVID-19 bill would"lift 9.9 million children above or closer to the poverty line including 4.1 million Latino children, 2.3 million Black children, and 441,000 Asian American children.
"We have too much at stake the house will be writing the bill and we will be making the child tax credit permanent," DeLauro, D-Conn., said.
So it was never intended to be a Covid relief effort. This is all intended to be permanent programs implemented as temporary relief. The lies from this administration are truly dangerous.