was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if you th