"If these folks are so pro-family, why aren't they supporting paid family and medical leave? If they believe in families, why are they not supporting the child tax credit?" Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) told HuffPost when asked about GOP opposition to the bill.

The legislation would have given low-income parents larger tax refunds, especially in households with multiple children. Tax analysts said a tax filer who has two children and earned $9,000 last year would receive a child tax credit refund worth $975 under current law, but $1,950 under the proposal.

The bill's authors, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), said it would "help 16 million kids from low-income families and lift 500,000 out of poverty," in part by allowing parents to claim the full tax credit for each of their kids, something they can't do now.

The bill included several sweeteners for Republicans, including business tax breaks for research-and-development expenses long sought by corporate donors. It would also not cost the government money, according to budget scorekeepers, because it would crack down on abuse of the employee retention tax credit, or ERTC, a program from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic that encouraged business owners to keep workers on company payrolls.

THIS, my friends, would be gaslighting. Some posters seem to be struggling with understanding that believing the lies spoon fed them by the right wing media for years and THEN being exposed to the truth isn't any type of gaslighting. It's call ENlightening - being exposed to the contextual truth as it's always existed - something extremely rare whenever Trump is involved one way or another.