it's going to change everything. It's going to change our whole lives. The money is already *** life changer for so many working families, it will be turned into savings for the house so that we can put *** down payment on the House. House of Representatives passed an infrastructure investment and jobs act. That bill creates jobs while the build back better Act, which has yet to pass provides programs to support everyday families. These bills are all designed to give ordinary people *** fighting chance. Many families were struggling before the pandemic and the economic fallout from it only made life harder. 57.3% of US households making less than $35,000 *** year, experienced income loss compared with 34.6% of those make more than 100 and $50,000 *** year. Since july many us parents have been receiving up to $300 *** month per child. As part of the american rescue plan divided administration's covid stimulus package. That payment is the child tax credit and it's on the table to be extended through 2022 married couples filing jointly, who Make less than $150,000 *** year. And single parents who make less than $112,500 *** year, automatically qualified to receive these payments. In 2021. The American rescue plan will lift half of America's Children out of poverty. It's already working. Child poverty has been cut by 25% since The payments began and child hunger has fallen by 1/3, according to CNBC. This money also provides many families with *** chance to finally afford *** place of their own. It's gonna put us just into that bracket where we can afford to live somewhere outside of government housing. It means we're going to have *** home that we can put *** down payment on *** house and that's something that's for my Children, My entire family, the Biden administration's build back better agenda would extend the child tax credits through 2022. Although the spending proposal has taken some major hits in other areas, no one got everything they wanted, including me. But that's what compromises. The proposed budget has been cut from 3.5 trillion to 1.85 trillion losing popular proposals like two free years of community college cutting prescription drug prices, paid family and medical leave and attacks on billionaires. The framework would still provide universal pre k fight climate change and extend the child tax credit. Working people of this nation in the middle class of this country have been dealt out of the american deal. It's time to deal them back in while the child tax code allows parents to deduct up to $2,000 per child. That wasn't possible for all parents. But how many families do you know? *** cashier waiters, healthcare workers who never got the benefit of the full tax break because they didn't have that much to deduct 80% of those left out were working parents who just didn't make enough money now under the child tax credit. Those working parents can reap that benefit. That's why the american rescue plan. We didn't just expand the amount of the middle class tax cut. We also made it refundable when they're going to give me child tax credits and they say this is for your Children. It's going right back into the economy, recipients may receive *** total of $3000 for kids. Six years and older Children under five receive *** total of $3600. I received $250 For my 13 year old brother. Is that what it is? And then $300 for my three year old daughter. Families are using the money to invest in their children's future, pay for childcare and to cover basic needs. I immediately paid my rent which was late. It's going back into the daycare, it's going into the food, it's going to the grocery store, it's going into um the camp trip that we're gonna take. The payments will continue to be deposited into americans bank accounts every month until the end of 2021 followed by *** lump sum in 2022. They will appear in americans accounts as *** deposit from the I. R. S. T. R. E. ***. S. 3 10 within biden's new framework. The child tax credit would expire at the end of 2022. It's been weeks of negotiating among congressional democrats already though, and it could be weeks still before legislation is fully flushed out and ready for *** vote. If you have not received your 2021 child tax credit yet, you have until november 15th to sign up for december's payment. To do so, go to get c t c dot org.