
Biden to tout 'historic' effort to end child poverty in remarks on expanded child tax credit
CNN
President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Thursday touting the expanded child tax credit, a provision of his administration's Covid-19 relief package aimed at reducing child poverty.
Biden "will explain in clear language how the child tax credit works," according to a White House official. "For every child under age 6, families will get $3,600, and for every child 6 to 17, families get $3,000."
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As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











