In the perpetual campaign that is Bob Dole’s life, it pays to have a hometown like Russell, Kansas, where you can always be just Bob. So why can’t he go home?
https://www.nysun.com/national/what-fate-awaits-bidens-one-year-child-tax-credit/91449/
No sooner had the ink dried on the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Biden than calls began to make permanent the expanded child tax credit that the law provides as a one-year emergency measure for 2021.
Democratic leaders are banking on some of the aid provisions being so popular that letting them expire would be a political nightmare, painful enough for Americans that even Republicans couldnt stand in the way. At the top of the list is making permanent the expanded child tax credit, Politico reported.
It cited a press release from Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut, who even before the Covid-19 stimulus passed was insisting, Children and families must be able to count on this benefit long after the end of this pandemic.