‘We can already feel the pinch.’ Families aren’t getting child tax credit checks for the first time in 6 months

“’After just six months of payments, the evidence is clear. The expanded and improved monthly Child Tax Credit, a policy I have been working on since 2003, works,’ said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Ct. ‘It was a lifeline for the middle class — the biggest middle class tax cut we have seen in generations — and lifted 50 percent of children out of poverty.'”