'Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party,' said RepBarbaraLee.
"The bipartisan bill that our colleagues have negotiated equips our Armed Forces with the resources they need while cutting non-defense, non-veterans spending in real dollars," the Republican leader continued.
For weeks, Democrats attempted to negotiate a revival of the expanded Child Tax Credit in some form, emphasizing the policy's success inand hunger last year. The CTC boost, which made the poorest families eligible for the child tax benefits for the first time, expired at the end of 2021 due to opposition from Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin .
After the boost expired last year, the CTC reverted back to its previous form, which denies benefits to families with extremely low or zero income. The cost of making the CTC available to such vulnerable families would have beenDemocrats attempted to attract Republican support by expressing their willingness to accept a, but the GOP refused to negotiate—and neither the CTC boost nor the corporate tax cuts made it into the final package.
"The Child Tax Credit kept almost 4 million kids out of poverty, reducing the childhood poverty rate by nearly half. Republicans let it expire," Rep. Barbara Lee Monday as it became clear that last-ditch efforts to revive the policy in the omnibus would fail."Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party."
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