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From: Ms. Baby Boomer	6/16/2022 9:05:57 AM
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Opinion Mitt Romney’s challenge to Joe Manchin — and to fellow Republicans... By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent June 15, 2022 at 5:17 p.m. EDT One of the great tragedies of American governance during the past year was the untimely death of the expanded child tax credit (CTC), which died along with President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. It was probably inevitable that Congress would allow the expanded CTC to perish, since this policy represented a moment of genuine progress at a time of great hardship. The expansion kept an estimated 3.7 million children out of poverty at the end of last year and benefited more than 65 million children before getting snatched away. Now, Sen. Mitt Romney has introduced a new version of the expanded CTC, a revision of a previous proposal the Utah Republican had championed. And this will pose a test to certain actors in our political system. For instance, it will challenge Sen. Joe Manchin III. The West Virginia Democrat, who had previously supported the expanded child tax credit as part of last year’s covid-19 rescue package, developed sudden qualms about it. But Romney’s proposal moves in Manchin’s ideological direction. Will he drop his objections? Story Continued @.... washingtonpost.com M

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