'This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely,' said one analyst. 'It's robbing programs that we need.'
, heightening the sense of urgency among campaigners and many Democratic lawmakers seeking to reinstate the program.
Congressional Democrats and the Biden White House have also suggested they would accept a more limited version of the 2021 CTC boost, potentially includingand other eligibility limits—which progressives oppose. Such concessions have apparently failed to sway Republicans. By comparison, the House and Senate voted this month to increase U.S. military spending by $90 billion dollars over"This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely. It's robbing programs that we need, like the discontinued Child Tax Credit expansion that cut child poverty by half," Lindsay Koshgarian, director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies,in a recent blog post.
"Policymakers can expand the Child Tax Credit, or they can fail to act and see the Rescue Plan's historic gains against child poverty evaporate," the think tank warned.
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