Democrats are scrambling to get their priorities included in President Biden
Biden is expected to outline a package called the American Families Plan during a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. The package will focus on human infrastructure, such as child care and education.
The president sees the package as a way to help families get on a stronger footing than they were prior to the pandemic. But a number of Democrats want to go well beyond what Biden is expected to propose, including in areas such as tax credits for families, unemployment insurance and health care.
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“The president will propose his plan. Congress is going to write the bill,” said DelBene, a Ways and Means Committee member and chairwoman of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. “And I’m so excited that my chairman, Richie Neal, announced his support for the permanent child tax credit today and all the work that he has done on this.
The comments from DeLauro and DelBene come amid growing efforts from congressional Democrats to press Biden to include a permanent expansion of the credit in his American Families Plan, which he is expected to roll out in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. News reports have indicated that Biden will call for extending through only 2025 the CTC expansion that he enacted in March.