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TODAY: Press Briefing with U.S. House and Senate Champions and MomsRisingFamilies on Expanding the Child Tax Credit During Lame Duck Session

December 7, 2022

Magen Eissenstat, 202/371-1996

U.S. Senators, House Representatives, national advocates, and impacted families to demand Congress pass the expanded, monthly Child Tax Credit together with the R&D Tax Credit before year-end

Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01), Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15) and Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), in collaboration with MomsRising, Economic Security Project Action, Community Change Action will host an on-the-record press briefing at 2:00 PM ET to discuss the urgent need to restore the expanded, monthly Child Tax Credit together with the R&D Tax Credit in a bipartisan tax package before the end of the year. The event will also feature prominent national advocates for the Child Tax Credit and impacted families, who can discuss the importance of the policy in keeping families afloat amid rising costs. 

WHAT: Press Briefing with Congressional Champions Supporting the Expanded Child Tax Credit

WHEN: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ET

WHERE: Senate Swamp (or Senate Visitors Center 215 if weather does not permit an outdoor space)

This press briefing follows recent statements made on behalf of the White House indicating that President Biden believes “any bill that cuts taxes for a big corporation must also [...] cut taxes for working families.” Congressional Progressive Caucus and the New Democrat Coalition – two groups that represent nearly half of the Democratic Caucus in the House – have also sent two separate letters either urging House leadership to prioritize the enhanced Child Tax Credit and/or oppose any new tax breaks for wealthy corporations unless passed together with the expanded, monthly Child Tax Credit.

WHO: 

  • Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03)
  • Representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01)
  • Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15)
  • Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)
  • Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)
  • Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
  • Dorian Warren, Co-President of Community Change Action
  • Chris Hughes, Co-Founder Economic Security Project Action
  • Tami Lunan, from Ohio Organizing Collaborative
  • Sharmayne Cosby, from SPACEs in Action DC
  • Amber MacQuarrie-MomsRising member from New Hampshire
  • Eshawney Gaston-MomsRising member from North Carolina

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.