OnPolitics: Child Tax Credit payments could be here to stay
Happy Thursday, OnPolitics readers!
The Internal Revenue Service will begin distributing Child Tax Credit payments today with monthly payments scheduled for the rest of the year. Around $15 billion will be distributed to approximately 39 million families and 65 million children this month, according to IRS estimates.
President Joe Biden called on Congress to extend the tax credit payments past their December expiration date, arguing the potential to reduce child poverty in America.
Biden is also hosting German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House today in what is likely to be her last visit to Washington as head of state.
It’s Mabinty, with today’s top news.
About those Jan. 6 Capitol rioters…
Prosecutions of the hundreds charged in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot are just getting started, offering Americans an initial look at just how severe the punishments will be for those who stormed the Capitol more than six months ago.
deep support of the filibuster
according to excerpts from a new book.
“I Alone Can Fix It,” written by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes how Milley and others feared Trump might take unconstitutional actions should he lose.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – an advisory body to the president – was planning for a confrontation with Trump over what Milley saw as the former president’s stoking of tensions in an attempt to lay the groundwork for a coup.
“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told his deputies in the days before Jan. 6, a reference to the 1933 burning of the German parliament that helped usher in the Nazi regime in Germany, Leonnig and Rucker write.
When in doubt, eat more ice cream🍦 — Mabinty
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