Stimulus-enhanced child tax credits should start flowing in July, IRS chief says
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The Internal Revenue Service is on track to start sending stimulus-enhanced child tax credits to millions of families in July, the agency's head said Tuesday.
The upbeat prediction from IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig was a notable change from his more hesitant assessment last month, when he told a House subcommittee that the agency might not meet the deadline imposed by the Democrats' $1.9 trillion relief package. "We fully expect to launch in July. We expect to launch with payments going out on a monthly basis," Rettig said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.