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Back in the summer, there was this moment when something Congress did, started blowing

up on TikTok. When that child tax credit hit your account and you had no idea. Do you

remember the child tax credit TikTok videos from over the summer? People were pretty happy

about it.

Slates Jordan Weisman wrote about this moment. When suddenly, because of the American Rescue

Plan, the traditional child tax credit got expanded for several months. Just as a trial

demo, that's what got these families all over the country feeling flush. I mean, my

favorite was the woman who went on TikTok and said, I got my first child tax credit payment

today, which means the government has officially paid me more child support than my baby daddy

ever has. And then, like, all the ones with the TikTok lady voice, like, when you are

running low on your account. When you are running low on your account and finally receive

child tax credit. Yeah, people were thrilled. So I initially

interpret them as a really good sign for the Biden administration. If a policy is going

viral on TikTok, that usually means it's broken through to some extent in public consciousness.

But unfortunately, that was sort of when there was more optimism in general permeating the

Biden administration and its big plans and ambitions.

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