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Bernie Sanders takes thinly-veiled swipe at Manchin for siding with the GOP and opposing child tax credit checks

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Sanders indirectly jabbed at Manchin for siding with the GOP to oppose checks to families.

"50 Republicans and 1 corporate Democrat allowed the $300 a month Child Tax Credit to expire," Sanders tweeted.

AOC also assailed the conservative Democrat for "nuking" the child allowance.
Senator Bernie Sanders said on Twitter that ending monthly checks to families was "morally obscene," after new research illustrated just how many children fell into poverty as payments dried up.

In December, families across the country stopped receiving up to $300 monthly child tax credit checks per kid — money that had been a "godsend" for some parents receiving them. The IRS said that over 36 million families received about $16 billion in the last batch of payments on December 15.

Sanders cited a new analysis from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia, which found that 3.7 million kids slid back into poverty with the credit's expiration. Child poverty rose to 17% in January compared to 12% in December, a 41% increase that brought it in line with late 2020 levels. The researchers found that Latino and Black children saw the largest rises in poverty.

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