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Raphael Warnock: “We passed the expanded child tax credit, without which…”

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Senator Raphael Warnock Discusses Faith, Politics, and His New Book 'We're in This Together, Leo's Lunchbox'

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

So, so this is why I'm focused on the work that I'm doing. A couple weeks ago, I introduced the child tax credit. I'm proud of the fact that when I went into the Senate 2021, We passed the expanded child tax credit, without which, literally, there's some people too poor to get it. Yes. And so we fixed that in 2021. And when we passed that piece of legislation, we cut child poverty in this country by more than 40%. (07:56–08:03)

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Asserts that the expanded child tax credit was passed to help those too poor to qualify previously.

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