Hello –
We kicked off February with President Biden’s address to Congress: “the state of the union is strong.”
With a Democratic majority we made historic progress to support working families and the American middle class. We created 12 million new good-paying jobs, lowered costs for working families, expanded the Child Tax Credit, and passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act – but the job isn’t yet done.
There is an urgent need to permanently reinstate the expanded Child Tax Credit that cut child poverty in half. This is the investment working families needed in order to stay afloat during the pandemic and we can’t afford to do away with it now. No family should be forced to choose between paying their bills and putting food on the table or affording child care and diapers.
We must also push for forward-thinking data privacy policies to give people control over their personal information and to hold bad actors accountable. We need a national privacy standard.
This month, we also introduced the bipartisan Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act to allow employers to offer workers stand-alone telehealth benefits, in addition to traditional health care plans. Even as we return to more in-person work, we should not turn our backs on the successful telehealth programs that benefited our workers here in Washington and across the country. Everyone, regardless of where they live, should be able to access quality care when and where they need it.
I will continue to push for progress for working families everywhere.
Thank you for standing with me,
Suzan DelBene
