Support the child tax credit.

the child tax credit

The campaign says Bell will work with Democratic leaders to advance the child tax credit.

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American families need real solutions: increasing the affordable housing supply, reducing prescription drug and healthcare costs, expanding access to affordable childcare, stabilizing supply chains, and ensuring wages rise in line with inflation.

Bell joined a member letter urging affordability-focused federal action and explicitly called for expanded affordable childcare, but the letter does not mention the child tax credit directly.

partial same_term A for effort

letter-to-potus-on-affordability-12.12.25.pdf
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Member page shows Rep. Wesley Bell active in the 119th Congress, with legislative activity and recorded sponsorship/cosponsorship entries available on Congress.gov.

No direct child tax credit action was located in the available official member record during the lookback window; this supports an unresolved status rather than delivery or reversal.

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Wesley Bell | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congress.gov lists Representative Wesley Bell as a Democratic House member from Missouri District 1 in the 119th Congress and shows member activity including sponsored legislation, cosponsored legislation, remarks, and House roll call votes. The visible member activity page did not surface a direct child tax credit bill, vote, or statement attributable to Bell.

Bell's official Congress.gov member record confirms the relevant federal service term and provides the main official activity record. The reviewed record did not establish a direct child tax credit support action by Bell, so it supports keeping the claim unresolved absent stronger evidence.

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Wesley Bell | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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H.R. 1 included Sec. 70104, titled "Extension and enhancement of increased child tax credit," amending Section 24(h) by striking the 2026 sunset language and replacing "$2,000" with "$2,200" for the child tax credit.

The enacted reconciliation law contained a child tax credit extension and increase. This proves a relevant federal vehicle existed, but does not by itself prove Bell supported it.

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Text - H.R.1 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Roll Call 145 recorded H.R. 1, "One Big Beautiful Act," on passage. The bill passed 215-214-1. The Clerk's vote list records Bell, Democratic, Missouri, as voting Nay.

Bell voted against the initial House passage of H.R. 1, a broad reconciliation bill that included a child tax credit extension and increase. Because the bill covered many unrelated provisions, this is evidence of non-support for that vehicle, not definitive opposition to the child tax credit itself.

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Roll Call 145 | Bill Number: H. R. 1 | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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Roll Call 190 recorded H.R. 1 on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment. The measure passed 218-214. The Clerk's vote list records Bell, Democratic, Missouri, as voting No.

Bell voted against final House concurrence on the enacted H.R. 1 package that included the child tax credit provision. This weighs against finding that he supported this child-tax-credit vehicle, though the mixed-bill context limits the inference.

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Roll Call 190 | Bill Number: H. R. 1 | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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Bell signed a letter stating that American families need solutions including "increasing the affordable housing supply, reducing prescription drug and healthcare costs, expanding access to affordable childcare, stabilizing supply chains, and ensuring wages rise in line with inflation." The letter criticized H.R. 1 for reducing assistance and lowering after-tax income for the bottom 40 percent of earners, but it did not mention the child tax credit.

The letter shows Bell taking concrete action on family affordability and criticizing H.R. 1's distributional effects. It is only partial adjacent evidence because it supports childcare and family costs generally, not the child tax credit specifically.

partial same_term A for effort

letter-to-potus-on-affordability-12.12.25.pdf
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The IRS states that the Child Tax Credit helps families with qualifying children get a tax break, that the credit is worth up to $2,200 per qualifying child, and that the Additional Child Tax Credit may be up to $1,700 depending on income, with a $2,500 earned-income requirement.

The IRS page confirms the child tax credit remained in force after H.R. 1 and describes the current credit amount. It helps establish policy context but does not show Bell's personal support or opposition.

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Child Tax Credit | Internal Revenue Service
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