Biden and the Democrats have been really fucking recently but this is one of the few things that is actually very good policy. All you have to do is read what economists and think tanks have said about it to understand why the GOP et al. are so worried:
Concerning child poverty and racial/ethnic equity, researchers from
Columbia University estimate that the new CTC
could cut child poverty by 45 percent and would have the largest impacts on Latino and Black children.
Our findings suggest that the child tax credit will not only act as a tool for decreasing child poverty in the short term, but also as a tool for increasing family social mobility in the long term.
Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss share findings from a survey of how American families plan to use their child tax credit.
www.brookings.edu
It is essentially a "pilot" for UBI which was very successful in Stockton so, of course, cacs and coons are upset. Notice that anything that even attempts to level the playing field is dangerous socialism but
actual socialism is OK provided that the beneficiaries are primarily cac.