Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, appears to have ended the possibility of hundreds of dollars in monthly direct payments going out to American parents in the new year with his stated opposition on Sunday to President Joe Biden‘s Build Back Better Act.
Millions of Americans have urged the federal government to provide more stimulus checks or recurring monthly payments for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although Congress does not appear to be planning to approve a fourth round of stimulus checks, lawmakers have repeatedly pointed to the popular Child Tax Credit passed as part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan in the spring.
Under that legislation, American parents began receiving monthly direct payments of $300 for each child under 6 and $250 for children […]
I like the White House correspondent Jen Psaki’s response regarding “sold out to coal Joe Manchin.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/19/statement-from-press-secretary-jen-psaki-4/