One US Senator “heard stories” about people allegedly using the Child Tax Credit “for drugs” without any evidence or data to back it up.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 18, 2022
He then used that as justification to nuke the entire national program, causing millions of kids to fall into poverty in weeks. Horrifying https://t.co/kOyuFp6ig4
In January, the child poverty rate increased by 40% in just 1 month – jumping from 12.1% to 17% as 3.7 million children slipped into poverty. How did this happen? 50 Republicans and 1 corporate Democrat allowed the $300 a month Child Tax Credit to expire. That is morally obscene.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 18, 2022
I am furious!
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) February 20, 2022
The equal of 53 packed football stadiums of anxious, food-insecure kids – 3.7M children! – have been thrown back into poverty because of 51 feckless, amoral U.S. senators
How can a nation pick fighter jets over its children? My new column https://t.co/838ov3uwTf
Child poverty in the U.S. rose by ~41 percent from December 2021 to January 2022, as Manchin and the GOP opposed extension of Biden's expanded Child Tax Credithttps://t.co/UBYQwoLJmq
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) February 21, 2022
another example:
It's utterly repugnant that Joe Manchin is going to kill Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination to the Fed because she cares about climate change.
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) March 14, 2022
But don't forget that's only possible if EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN also votes against her. They're all to blame.https://t.co/XPnmjTnCf1