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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 08:06

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%. Now, I know that those folks are watching saying, well, we didn't feel it. Well, we only did it for six months. Yeah. (08:06–08:12)

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