Senators urge Biden to act
Five senators, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Ron Wyden of Oregon, wrote a letter to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in January, urging them to get extended credit, CNN reported.
“The expanded CTC is a flagship domestic policy achievement of this administration and has been a resounding success,” the senators wrote.
“The consequences of not extending the CLC expansion are dire, especially as families face another wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
“After historic progress, it is unacceptable to return to a status quo in which children are America’s poorest residents and child poverty costs our nation more than $1 trillion a year,” they said. they added.
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