A new budget proposal that would impose new restrictions on the federal Child Tax Credit could eliminate the benefit for millions of U.S. citizens or legally resident children, policy experts have said.
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Carl Davis
Research Director
June 9, 2025
Newsweek: Child Tax Credit Could Be Stripped from Millions of Children
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