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Manchin's stance on child tax credit likely to stall Build Back Better into 2022 - YouTube
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it's growing unlikely democrats will
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pass president biden's two trillion
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dollar social spending bill by their
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christmas deadline a source tells cbs
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news discussions over the social and
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climate package have soured between
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president biden and senator joe manchin
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the democrat from west virginia now
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reportedly wants to eliminate an
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expansion of the child tax credit from
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the bill according to the washington
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post a group of
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of west virginia parents dialed into a
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video call wednesday to urge senator
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manchin to support the expanded benefit
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but minutes before the call was supposed
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to begin one of manchin's aides emailed
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parents asking to reschedule
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yagen attorbani wrote that report and
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joins me now she's an economic policy
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investigative reporter for the
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washington post
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yeah welcome explain to us why senator
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manchin is taking issue with an
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expansion of the child tax credit in
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particular
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well senator manchin has made clear over
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the past few months that he is pretty
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skeptical of the child tax credit um in
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particular he's talked about you know
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the fact that um it goes to parents
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without any sort of work
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requirement in place especially in this
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expanded version which the byte
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administration has championed and which
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most democrats want to uh continue and
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so you know these are sort of social
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spending benefits that senator manchin
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as a fairly conservative democrat um is
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is pretty skeptical of
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and so that has been a big sticking
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point between him and the bind
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administration as well as him and other
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democrats in congress
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well how have we seen the expanded
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child tax credit actually help
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families in west virginia
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sure well you know west virginia is a
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relatively poor state and the fact that
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the ex expanded version of the tax
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credit went from two thousand dollars to
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at its highest level thirty six hundred
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dollars for uh children five and under
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that really goes a long way in a state
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like west virginia also west virginia
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has a pretty high proportion of
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grandparents who are raising their
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grandchildren and that's partially due
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to the legacy of the opioid epidemic
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obviously grandparents are often on a
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fixed income on sort of you living off
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of retirement benefits or social
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security and so getting an extra 300 or
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250
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um per child to those families has made
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a big difference um you know
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fewer west virginians are reporting um
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hunger issues um there have been you
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know surveys done showing that a lot of
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families support continuing these
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benefits um and so it's had a big impact
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in a state like west virginia
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so yeah if this has benefited senator
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manchin's constituents if they are now
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lobbying to try and get him to support
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it is there any indication that
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that he might change his position
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particularly on this issue
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you know i mean he he holds like
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somewhat conservative views when it
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comes to these sorts of economic social
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benefit programs and of course west
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virginia is a very conservative state he
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is one of the last perhaps the last of
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statewide elected democrats and so he um
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you know is facing a pretty tenuous and
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difficult political situation and also
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you know it seems like his own personal
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views lean more towards um being
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skeptical or you know
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someone against the child tax credit in
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its expanded form however it is um sort
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of a key thing that democrats have been
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touting they've been talking about the
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child tax credit and how much it has cut
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child poverty um it's something that is
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clearly very important to president
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biden even though they have scaled back
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um the length of the renewal they are
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still hoping to get it for at least one
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more year um and so it's
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it's sort of a question we might have to
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wait and see whether senator manchin is
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willing to
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um you know cut talks over the entire
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deal over this one issue whether the
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white house will um step back or whether
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they can come to some sort of agreement
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and it's just unclear and as you said it
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definitely you know seems like it
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definitely won't happen by christmas
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yeah
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i spoke with a leader of the aarp who
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says that they are strongly supportive
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of the prescription drug portion of the
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bill as well as some other things that
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benefit seniors i'm wondering
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what other lobbying efforts and
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influence is senator manchin facing when
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it comes to his stance on the buildback
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better package
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yeah it's a really good question i mean
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um you know there are business lobbies
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that are of course against buildback
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better because of the tax increases that
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are included in it and they are really
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strongly targeting um senator manchin
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senator uma um because you know they
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they of course don't want those tax
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increases to pass um you know they are
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trying to sort of uh impress upon these
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senators the um you know some of the
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opposition perhaps in their home states
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particularly again in west virginia
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which is
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overall a more conservative state um and
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so it's you know we don't know exactly
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how things are going to play out but
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but those business lobbies are certainly
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pressuring some of these swing votes all
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right
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thank you
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