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Welfare program from federal spending. the chairperson oftive paul the budget committee, cutting $5.3 trillion over 10 years. nobody wants their entitlements taken away from them. how will that effect mitt romney. >> one of the interesting things in his plan he defends those that are on medicare today and what have you. talks about the future. talks about that next generation. as a republic party, if were going to attract young voters. were going to have to do it on fiscal issues. my sense is he...

Those are losiers in the polls with the people. instead, romney has to make things up to scare people about welfare queens coming to take their money. in this instance, the romney camp is completely ignoring the fact about the waiver policy. how many of you out there across america know what the waiver policy is? hasnt been much detail about it. the department of health and human services, basically, what theyre doing is giving states more latitude to meet the work goals of the federal welfare p...

Senate budget committee, more than 100 million americans are currently receiving some kind of federal welfare and that doesnt count social security or medicare, which are really not welfare programs because we, the people, have paid directly into them. medical assistance, medicaid, the most used welfare program. in the year 2000, 34 million americans were on medicaid. thought number is 54 million. food stamps second. in 2000, 17 million of us received food stamps. today that number is an astrono...

>> hope examine change. the fact of the matter is, he made a loft promises, he hasnt been able to keep them. theyre afraid of fighting on the record. they have to deflect. so thats why they have to say you have harry reid coming out and saying, he hasnt paid income taxes in ten years. >> steve: he had a good source. >> yeah. we asked a source. did he examine the record? this is the kind of thing that has people saying, i dont care about these guys. i dont care about any of them. but i think its ...

Get a waiver to do so. but the obama administration is i just got something wrong. i said that three mile island was 1974, when it wasnt at all. offering waivers to say if you want to experiment with your it was 1979, which was totally welfare program to try some new state approach to get more dumb of me and my own fault. im very sorry. ngs can make a big difference. people in the work force, you can go for it. like how a little oil from here you can apply for a waver to do can be such a big t...

But the obama administration is offering states waivers to say, you know, if you want to experiment with your welfare program to try some new state approach to get more people into the work force, you can go for it. you can apply for a waiver to do that. and this, again, was requested of the administration by republican governors. and back when mitt romney was a republican governor in 2005, he made the same request of the federal government. that states be given waivers to experiment with their ...

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earth. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administrations policies, but with support from an unlikely ally hes raising the stakes today. heres our national political correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for th...

>> when pressed on that, what he was talk about, romney said im in favor for flexibility for states. not in favor of reducing the work requirement. allowing the state to craft their own program and care for their own people. that is what i was for as governor." the white house isnt buying that. >> that is right. he was for flexibility. what the white house is saying we have to be flexible. you cannot have a rigid rule to say if you are in some kind of job training program you no longer are eligi...