We cannot see your tax return. We do not know what income you entered or if you have dependents. The child-related credits like earned income credit and additional child tax credit, for example, are affected by the amount you earned by working. So you may have less for those credits---you say you earned less.
Or----do you have a child who turned 17? You lose the child tax credit when they turn 17.
Always check your own data entries, looking for errors such as misplaced decimals or extra zeros.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/refund-go-compared-last-year/...
Print out 2022 and 2023 and compare them side by side to see what is different.
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