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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump orders top-to-bottom review of welfare programs
...In an executive order signed Tuesday afternoon, Trump directed the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture and other agencies to make a top-to-bottom review of their safety-net programs, with the goal of finding ways to push more people into the workforce and off of welfare....
With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, conservatives have pushed the administration to take advantage of a rare opportunity to unwind or overhaul assistance programs, which they believe promote dependency and are easy to exploit. But the effort, in the works for months, had stalled amid internal debate at the White House, ultimately took a back seat to infrastructure as a top legislative priority in Congress, leaving conservatives with an executive order....
While liberal social-welfare groups digested the Trump order, conservative groups immediately released statements hailing it.
Despite there being six million open jobs across the nation, there is a record number of able-bodied adults trapped on welfare, said Tarren Bragdon, president of the Foundation for Government Accountability, a small-government group based in Naples, Florida. This executive order is a strong signal that the Trump administration intends to change that.
With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, conservatives have pushed the administration to take advantage of a rare opportunity to unwind or overhaul assistance programs, which they believe promote dependency and are easy to exploit. But the effort, in the works for months, had stalled amid internal debate at the White House, ultimately took a back seat to infrastructure as a top legislative priority in Congress, leaving conservatives with an executive order....
While liberal social-welfare groups digested the Trump order, conservative groups immediately released statements hailing it.
Despite there being six million open jobs across the nation, there is a record number of able-bodied adults trapped on welfare, said Tarren Bragdon, president of the Foundation for Government Accountability, a small-government group based in Naples, Florida. This executive order is a strong signal that the Trump administration intends to change that.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/10/trump-welfare-programs-513814
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Trump orders top-to-bottom review of welfare programs (Original Post)
mia
Apr 2018
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I wonder how many of Trump's supporters are going to be affected by this?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Apr 2018
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Wwcd
(6,288 posts)1. OH NOOO! Trump hands over total welfare reform to..
Head of HHS & Obamacare critic,Alex Azar
&
HUD Sec Ben Carson
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)2. I wonder how many of Trump's supporters are going to be affected by this?
Personally, I think it will be a real-life lesson for them about the term, "voting against your own interests."
But her emails!
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)3. Corporate welfare ? N/T