{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3951", "DelBene: Claims that Expanded Child Tax Credit Would Harm Families, Reduce Work are \u2018Untethered from Reality\u2019", "2024-09-09", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "WA", "Suzan K. DelBene", "D000617", "delbene.house.gov", "delbene", "https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) responded to a recent American Enterprise Institute article that claims that Democrats\u2019 efforts to bring back and make permanent the enhanced Child Tax Credit \u201cpunishes working families\u201d and would \u201cdiscourage parental employment and risk harming the long-run prospects of children.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe idea that permanently expanding the Child Tax Credit would harm families or discourage parents from working is untethered from reality. We don\u2019t need to guess how the expanded Child Tax Credit would work because Democrats put this program in place in 2021 and the results couldn\u2019t have been clearer. The expanded Child Tax Credit was one of the largest tax cuts for working families and cut childhood poverty nearly in half during some of the most challenging times of the pandemic. This is in large part because the expansion reached the one-in-three kids left behind by the existing credit.\n\n\u201cThe consistent claim from conservatives that the expanded credit discouraged parents from working is also disproven by the data. A review of the impacts of the 2021 program clearly shows that the expanded Child Tax Credit had no significant impact on parental employment. Instead, the expanded credit empowered parents with the resources they needed to get back to work by paying for child care and other necessities of raising children.\n\n\u201cThe pervasive use of this disproven claim aligns with Republicans\u2019 consistent disregard for the facts. We have a proven solution in Democrats\u2019 expanded Child Tax Credit, and we must make it permanent to give our kids the best chance at a bright future.\u201d\n\nBackground:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3951"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8464897982776165, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}