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The Obama administration has quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This illegal move completely undoes years of progress that helped millions of Americans.
By all accounts, Bill Clinton seemed to thoroughly enjoy delivering his prime-time speech to a rapt audience at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. In his 48-minute tour de force, one of the former president’s whistle stops was welfare reform. Clinton warned his listeners that the charge he was about to rebut was “a real doozy”: President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work. Apparently it was a laugh line brimming with irony.
What do you make of that trade? is that something you'd vote for? >> well, you know, those are mismatched elements there. the tax cuts and jobs act provisions on expensive and research and bottom are very -- and development are very low cost items, or paul. the child tax credit is a huge budget-buster, $100 billion or more a year. that just isn't going to be a realistic balance. certainly, republicans want to see the work requirement restored in the child tax credit. but if you're looking at a balanced package, certainly child tax credit swamps everything. i think if democrats come down to rea...
Don't agree the executive is limited, we are in for real trouble no matter who is in the white house. david: i am thinking a lot of the reasons democrats were upset about this is they really like the power grab they took during the pandemic. on national level or local level we had because of the pandemic, they have become addicted to the pandemic emergency. >> it allowed them to implement some policies you always want to put in place such as extending the medicaid rolls. the emergency were removed some of those people, states would be able to take them off of the medicaid rolls and then there'...
To hear Bill Clinton tell it, there’s no truth to the charges that President Obama gutted welfare reform. The White House, fact-checkers and some journalists have said the same, playing down Obama’s decision to exempt states from the law’s work requirements. Working closely with members of Congress, I helped draft the work requirements in the 1996 law, and I raised the alarm on July 12, when the Obama administration issued a bureaucratic order allowing states to waive those requirements. The law has indeed been gutted. Here’s how: