child tax credit

“We're frustrated and disappointed,” said Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told HuffPost it's "bulls**t" to ask his position on continuing the payments.
The West Virginia Democrat suggested this week he’s still got major beef with the legislation.
Democrats likely need to finish the bill by the end of the year to ensure January's child benefit goes out on time.
Family poverty has substantially declined thanks to the child tax credit.
The one-year extension of a new child benefit could help Democrats hold the House in 2022. Or it could blow up in their faces.
A work requirement would wreck the child tax credit's impact on child poverty.
The gritty details and tough trade-offs of the Build Back Better agenda are finally coming into focus.
Democrats may have to compromise on their most prized policy initiative.
It depends on whether Manchin cares about the bill's sheer ambition or just its increase in federal spending.