[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           ALLOWING CHILD TAX CREDIT TO EXPIRE IS MISJUDGMENT

  (Mr. TORRES of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TORRES of New York. Madam Speaker, according to The Washington 
Post, the administration plans to propose only a temporary rather than 
a permanent expansion of the child tax credit.
  Allowing the child tax credit to expire in 2025 is a colossal 
misjudgment whose consequences we could live to regret.
  We cannot and should not be the party that cuts child poverty in half 
only until 2025. We should and must be the party that champions a 
permanent breakthrough against child poverty.
  Instead of making the most of our FDR and LBJ moment, we are in 
danger of inexplicably putting an expiration date on our own legacy. 
Did President Roosevelt put an expiration date on Social Security? Did 
President Johnson put an expiration date on Medicare? Why should we put 
an expiration date on the Social Security and Medicare of our own time?
  I urge President Biden to make his greatest achievement a permanent 
legacy.

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