“Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party.” - Rep. Barbara Lee
, but the GOP refused to negotiate — and neither the CTC boost nor the corporate tax cuts made it into the final package.
“The Child Tax Credit kept almost 4 million kids out of poverty, reducing the childhood poverty rate by nearly half. Republicans let it expire,” Rep. Barbara Lee Monday as it became clear that last-ditch efforts to revive the policy in the omnibus would fail. “Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party.”
Congress must pass the omnibus this week to avert a government shutdown. Sen. Dick Durbin , the second-ranking Senate Democrat, accused McConnell of cynically exploiting the prospect of a government shutdown to force through a bill more favorable to Republicans.reporters, lamenting the inflation-adjusted cut to non-military spending.in a “celebratory mood” after appropriators reached a deal on the omnibus.
The roughly $1.7 trillion measure proposes $772.5 billion for non-military discretionary programs compared to nearly $860 billion for the military, around half of which will
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