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WASHINGTON – Parents who received monthly child tax credit payments in 2021 didn’t spend the extra cash on drugs, according to a new study that contradicts a top talking point against the payments.
Democrats launched the monthly payments in 2021 as part of their American Rescue Plan, the pandemic relief bill that also included a third round of stimulus checks. They intended to continue the recurring payments in a followup bill but couldn’t get agreement from then-Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who later left the party and is no longer in Congress.
Continuing the parent payments was only one part of the much broader “Build Back Better” bill that Manchin opposed. The measure also included universal prekindergarten, child care subsidies and new requirements that companies offer their workers paid leave. All that material was jettisoned, while the bill’s green energy subsidies became law as part of the Manchin-endorsed Inflation Reduction Act.
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