This is a historic moment for our country, Lawrence. It really is. We are about to create a child allowance that, as you have pointed out, will lift four million children, one half of children in this country out of poverty.
Rosa DeLauro emphasizes the significance of the child tax credit increase in the COVID relief bill and its impact on child poverty.
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I am deeply fearful that, at a time when appropriators must come together to defend our power of the purse, the path the majority has chosen will only survive to degrade the efficacy and credibility of what we are doing in this room.
“What is shameful is when you know you have a model that works, that’s tried and true, that has results,” DeLauro said, “to not say yes to increasing the resources and the investments in this is morally irresponsible.”
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