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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill from both sides of the aisle are pushing for a revival of the expanded child tax credit, but they are running into a familiar problem: They can’t agree on how to do it.
Democrats seek a complete return of the expanded child tax credit from President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus bill, while Republicans are spearheading their own version of the child tax credit − one that includes provisions for unborn children and expectant mothers and that has received the support of anti-abortion groups
“Child tax credit works. I don’t know what needs to be changed,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., one of the Democratic lawmakers leading the push for the tax credit, told USA TODAY. “It worked beautifully: monthly basis, lifted 40% of kids out of poverty, decreased hunger by 66%. Why would we want to change it?”
But some Republicans who have said they would support expanding the child tax credit said any version that would earn their support would have to be more narrow. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told USA TODAY he also wants assurances a tax credit would be “fully paid for.
Republicans such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told USA TODAY that a number of his GOP colleagues who did not support the child tax credit later went on to lose reelection to Congress.
“Some of them are not here anymore, but we got it done,” he said.
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Democrats seek a complete return of the expanded child tax credit from President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus bill, while Republicans are spearheading their own version of the child tax credit − one that includes provisions for unborn children and expectant mothers and that has received the support of anti-abortion groups
“Child tax credit works. I don’t know what needs to be changed,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., one of the Democratic lawmakers leading the push for the tax credit, told USA TODAY. “It worked beautifully: monthly basis, lifted 40% of kids out of poverty, decreased hunger by 66%. Why would we want to change it?”
But some Republicans who have said they would support expanding the child tax credit said any version that would earn their support would have to be more narrow. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told USA TODAY he also wants assurances a tax credit would be “fully paid for.
Republicans such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told USA TODAY that a number of his GOP colleagues who did not support the child tax credit later went on to lose reelection to Congress.
“Some of them are not here anymore, but we got it done,” he said.
Child tax credit 2023: What new proposals from Dems, GOP mean for you
Democrats are pushing for a complete return of the expanded child tax credit from President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus bill.
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