After years of inflation and rising populism, congressional Republicans are under enormous pressure to increase the benefit as part of legislation extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
Key party figures see enlarging the credit, currently $2,000 per child, as critical for appealing to families and the working class and maintaining GOP congressional majorities. For others, the stakes are even higher: Some conservatives now see larger benefits for children as necessary to help reverse a decline in birthrates that threatens the future of the nation.
Yet it won’t be easy getting an expansion enacted. Some fiscal conservatives see the child tax credit as at odds with lowering tax rates to spur economic growth. And Republicans cannot enact every tax break that they and President Donald
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