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Parents and Democrats press to preserve expanded child tax credit as committee debates TCJA permanence
Summary
Parents and Democrats told the House Ways and Means Committee the child tax credit has eased household budgets and cut child poverty, and urged Congress to preserve or expand refundability as part of negotiations over the 2017 tax law’s expiring provisions.
Parents and advocates testified at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing that the child tax credit (CTC) expansions enacted or proposed since 2017 materially reduced child poverty and provided monthly and year‑end aid to families.
Margaret Marple, who described herself as a mother of three and a beneficiary of the child tax credit, told the committee: “The financial benefit of the child tax credit lightens the load of the financial burden parents carry, but also serves to affirm and enforce the…
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