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Rosa DeLauro: “The child tax credit, 83 percent of the Republican tax law went to the richest 1 percent of the people in this country.”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
The child tax credit, 83 percent of the Republican tax law went to the richest 1 percent of the people in this country.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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Highlighting inequities in the child tax credit distribution under the GOP tax law.

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