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Has grown from 14.3% in 2009 to now almost 17% of the country. and the number of americans participating in food stamp programs have also nearly tripled over the past decade. while some reports are warning that the sequestration cuts are bound to make this worse, it's interesting to note that these numbers all worsened amid a massive increase in spending to fight poverty. federal spending on the poor hit more than $569 billion in fiscal year 2011. that's a 5,500% increase from 1907 which far outpaces inflation. in the past two years the federal government spent more than $1 trillion on program...

The money. >> it's really, true line credible, jon. it's exactly why the vast majority of american people have absolutely no faith whatsoever in the federal government. as william la jeunesse pointed out just a couple of weeks ago janet napolitano was saying the border is as secure as it's ever been and this is very much part of all the negotiations about figuring what to do with the 12 million illegal aliens currently in the country. no one wants to move forward until we figure out that the border is in fact secure. but of course they are down there playing games with this stuff. and we know ...

>> shepard: i had to run back here. but not a moment too soon. the president has signed a spending bill to fund the government through september. what it does is keep all the sequestration cuts in place but at least the government keeps the lights on until the end of september when they'll no doubt be haggling over still other issues and threatening a shutdown or god knows what then. but for now, keep going. all right in the meanwhile, getting out the vote with the healthcare law. a draft of the new online healthcare application also lets people register to vote. toward the end of a 61-page do...

Mostly low risk illegals go due to the forced buts from sequestration cuts. apparently that was not entirely the case. a new report in florida alone, 76 to 25 released in hat criminal convictions. katy is tracking the story. leaving aside the fact that a lot of these let-goes were done prior to cuts that were supposedly coming into effect -- those specific cuts never did -- the argument was that these were weren't going to be dangerous people. it's the opposite. how bad is this any. >> pretty bad in florida, third of the criminals released by i.c.e. has criminal convictions that refer to aggra...

Is still under attack from republican lawmakers. but increasing number of states that previously opposed the law are now signing on to its medicaid expansion program, with some big surprise turnarounds from states like arizona, and florida. so that leads us to our question of the day for all of you. will obama care stand the test of time? talk to me on twitter. my handle is @alexwitt. and i will be reading some of your tweets throughout the day. a critical move by congress this week to delay furlough notices for hundreds of thousands of pentagon civilian employees. the house passed a bill thur...