McConnell was unnerved about Biden's child tax credit becoming too popular for the GOP to kill, book

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell never backed President Joe Biden's stimulus law, which passed with only Democratic votes early last year. But one of its social programs seemed to alarm him in particular.

McConnell was unnerved by the expanded child tax credit, according to a forthcoming book "This Will Not Pass" from a pair of New York Times reporters. Insider obtained it ahead of its May 3 release.

Shortly after the law's passage in March 2021, the Kentucky Republican privately confided to a friend that it was among the numerous social benefits that could prove too popular for Republicans to dislodge even if they regained control of Congress.

"If Americans grew used to the benefits in the new law, he suggested, it would become politically untenable for Republicans to repeal its most popular measures," wrote Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin. "The country, McConnell lamented, might cross a point of no return toward becoming a European-style social welfare state —exactly the outcome he had spent his career arguing against."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-was-unnerved-about-bidens-child-tax-credit-becoming-too-popular-for-the-gop-to-kill-book-says/ar-AAWOEUd

[Bettie]

1. That's why he asked his buddy Manchin

to kill it for him.

Yeah, I've heard the claptrap about him not liking McConnell, yet he still did him a favor by saying, "Nope, children in poverty is great!".

[brush]

3. Sinema was also in on that. Child poverty...yippie.

[Bettie]

4. Can't let those little ones think that

eating food every day is normal!

[Wounded Bear]

2. We need to be running on this, among other things...

give them the old, "We gave you help raising your kids and they wouldn't let us make it permanent."

Want the Child Tax Credit back? Vote Blue, no matter who.

Manchin's a lost cause, so we need to flip a few red seats in the Senate.

[c-rational]

5. +1

[uponit7771]

6. +1, CTC as carrot and fear of losing democracy as stick. Dems need to stoke as widely as reps do ...

... but telling the trurh

[gratuitous]

7. Yes, God forbid we live in comfort and peace

That would be horrible for Republicans. And if it happened because a government program aided people, well! You might see Republicans taking swan dives off the Capitol dome. It's a chance I'm willing to take.

[Blaukraut]

8. Depending on how the midterms turn out, Dems need to revisit the CTC n/t

[Wounded Bear]

9. See Post #2. After the mid-terms is too late. We need to run on it...nt

[Irish_Dem]

10. Everything is about him and his power.

He could care less about what is good for the American people.