Hakeem will keep fighting to expand the Child Tax Credit to provide direct relief to working families with kids.
Expand the Child Tax Credit to provide direct relief to working families with kids.
Occurrences
Hakeem will keep fighting to expand the Child Tax Credit to provide direct relief to working families with kids.
Evidence
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Section 9611 of H.R. 1319 revised and increased the child tax credit in 2021, made it refundable, raised it to $3,000 per child under age 17 and $3,600 for children under age 6, and required Treasury to establish advance payments.
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Jeffries wrote that the American Rescue Plan "will lift 5.5 million children out of poverty through increasing the Child Tax Credit from $2000 per child to $3000 per child ($3600 for a child under age 6)."
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The page states that "The expanded and improved Biden Child Tax Credit has taken effect" and that monthly payments would last until the end of the year, but "we are fighting to make them permanent."
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The Congressional Record Index lists Jeffries under taxation matters including a bill to "increase and make child tax credit fully refundable, establish increased child tax credit for young children, index credits for inflation, and set up advance payments on monthly basis (see H.R. 928)."
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The IRS's current Child Tax Credit guidance says the credit helps families with qualifying children, is worth up to $2,200 per qualifying child, and the refundable Additional Child Tax Credit can be worth up to $1,700.
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26 USC 24: Child tax credit Text contains those laws in effect on September 15, 2026 ... Subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting "$2,200" for "$1,000".
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This section revises and increases the child tax credit in 2021 and makes the credit refundable. The amount of the credit shall increase to $3,000 for each child under age 17 and to $3,600 for children under the age of 6 years. Treasury must establish a program for advance payments of the child tax credit.
Assessments
Jeffries’ promise was substantially met in his federal term when Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021. That law expanded the Child Tax Credit, increased benefit levels, made it fully refundable for 2021, and provided advance monthly payments, which matches the promise to expand the credit and deliver direct relief to families with children. Jeffries was not the sole author of the outcome, but the record shows he publicly backed the expansion and had aligned legislative activity on Child Tax Credit expansion, so he receives credit as a participating federal officeholder. The later expiration of the temporary 2021 expansion does not undo delivery because the claim did not explicitly require a permanent expansion.
The promise was to expand the Child Tax Credit to provide direct relief to working families with children. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 enacted a Child Tax Credit expansion for 2021, increasing the credit to $3,000 or $3,600 for young children, making it fully refundable, and creating advance monthly payments. Jeffries publicly supported and credited the enacted law. Although the expansion was temporary and not made permanent, the specific promised outcome was an expansion providing direct relief, which was delivered in the same term.