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Peter Welch: “The child tax credit, you know, when we had that, it reduced…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Questions Treasury Secretary Nominee Scott Bessent at Confirmation Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

I will get up to this. I appreciate that. But there's a couple of things that really make a difference for working Americans in South Carolina and in Vermont. The child tax credit, you know, when we had that, it reduced poverty for children by 50%. That's really elemental for hard working families. And the premium support, where health care is just a brutal Expense for employers too, by the way. (02:50–02:56)

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