Because YOU have spoken out over the past year–sending calls, sharing stories, signing letters, and shouting from the rooftops!–we have a positive update on the Child Tax Credit (CTC): Democrats and Republicans have reached a bipartisan deal to temporarily expand the Child Tax Credit . [1] WOOHOO!

This is huge news and we need to pressure Congress ASAP to get this across the finish line before the end of January so you and your family can start accessing this tax credit THIS tax season! That is why we are calling on you to take these two important actions today to call on Congress to pass the bipartisan tax package and expand the CTC now!

Action #1: CALL your U.S. Representative using our hotline to Congress and tell your elected leader to “Pass and support the bipartisan Smith-Wyden tax package and expand the Child Tax Credit immediately.”

-We make it super easy for you—click on our hotline to Congress link (or you can simply text CTC to 888-418-5699) and fill in your information and you’ll get a call on your phone connecting you directly to your Representative’s offices. We even provide you with written talking points to assist you in your call.

Action #2: POST our Child Tax Credit action links to social media. You can double down on your positive impact by encouraging your friends and family to call their U.S. Representatives as well by simply reposting our action links on social media. Simply click on the links below to repost/retweet.

*Here’s a little more about what is going on with the CTC bipartisan tax package: U.S. Representative Jason Smith (R) and Senator Ron Wyden (D), chairs of the powerful Ways and Mean and Finance Committees, have reached a bipartisan agreement on a tax package that will temporarily expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC). While the tax package also includes business tax credits, most importantly, it prioritizes a temporary expansion of the CTC for working families—something you and MomsRising have been fighting for for a long time!

This is important because there are currently 19 million children excluded from the full credit because of the current structure of the CTC. [2] This new bipartisan tax proposal would lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line and make an additional 3 million children better off this year. Additionally, the proposal would benefit about 80% of the 19 million children who are currently left out of the full CTC or don’t receive it at all because their parents' earnings are too low. [3] This would be a tremendous step in the right direction in reducing child poverty and giving parents the resources they need to work, raise their families, and contribute to our economy. We know much more needs to be done in the coming years to make sure the full expansion of the CTC is made permanent but this provides us the opportunity to help millions of families right now and build momentum for the next step in our fight to make our tax code more fair and equitable.

We are so grateful to you for keeping the pressure on and to all our CTC champions in Congress who have pushed tirelessly to make this package a reality and are not giving up until no families live in poverty including: Senators Brown (OH), Bennet (CO), Casey (PA), Wyden (OR), and Hassan (NH) and Representatives DelBene (WA), DeLauro (CT), and Neal (MA).

Thank you so much for continuing to support working family tax credits like the Child Tax Credit and using your voice to speak out in favor of this pro-family, pro-economy, anti-poverty policies!

-Elyssa, Kristin, Hanna, Sue Anne, Donna, and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

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