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1. "It would be very hard for people to take things away, and that's part of our goal," said Rep. Mark
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:04 PM
Oct 2021
Pocan (D-Wis.), another leading progressive. "Once people see how popular these things are ... many of these debates are the same debates we had when you created Social Security and other programs. And once people got them, you saw how wildly popular [they were]. We think some of these are going to be in that wildly popular category."

"That's why we want to keep them out there, even if it's for a little bit of shortened time, because once people start to see it," they will support it, Pocan continued. "The child tax credit is a classic example. I mean [look] how popular it is right now; it's a lot easier for us to extend that out."


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