Senator Reverend Warnock Urges President Biden and Vice President Harris to Secure Expanded Child Tax Credit

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Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), joined by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) urged the Biden Administration to secure an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) as a centerpiece of the next round of economic investments.

"The expanded CTC is a signature domestic policy achievement of this administration, and has been an overwhelming success," wrote the senators in a new letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris. "The Biden Administration's expanded CTC represents the biggest tax cut for low- and middle-income families in modern American history--standing in sharp contrast to the $8 trillion in tax cuts Congress has enacted since 2001, the benefits of which have largely gone to the wealthy."

"The consequences of failing to extend the CTC expansion are dire, particularly as families face another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic," Senator Warnock and the lawmakers wrote. "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 per year. Raising taxes on working families is the last thing we should do during a pandemic."

The COVID relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan, expanded the Child Tax Credit and over the last 6 months, millions of families have received monthly installments of the CTC including 27 million children who were previously excluded from the full tax credit. In Georgia, more than 2 million children have benefitted from the credit.

Senator Warnock has been a vocal advocate for extending the expanded Child Tax Credit: in March 2021, Senator Warnock, joined Senators Bennet, Brown, Booker, and Wyden led a group of 41 Senate Democrats in pushing to make the expansion of the CTC permanent.

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