WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Republican leadership spent the weekend at Camp David setting the 2018 legislative agenda, and welfare reform, a topic so sensitive it is considered the “third-rail” of American politics, looks like it could become a priority in 2018.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans accompanied Trump to the presidential retreat for a weekend of strategizing and planning for the upcoming 2018 election year. Welfare reform, much to the delight of conservative voters and legislators, was included in those discussions.
Trump told reporters Saturday after meeting with leadership that welfare was something they “were looking at,” not going so far as to take a firm stance. The president made it known early in his first year in the White House that he would not touch Social Security or Medicare, but his rhetoric has changed in recent months and shows a willingness to engage with reforming welfare.
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5 comments:
There's nothing like the ultra-rich dictating the lives of the poor :)
Get a job. Dedicate your own life.
Welfare is not Social Security or Medicaid. Us working stiffs pay into Social Security and Medicaid all our working years and we expect to get it back. Welfare is what is paid to the non working leaches who don't work. it was originally designed to help people who had some bad luck until they were able to get their feet on the ground. not support them their entire life. Get rid of welfare and pay me the money that the government has taken from me with the promise that it will be returned
It definitely needs to be revised!
And Trump is the only President that
has brought this to attention!
10:46 Nothing like a clueless democrat filling the pockets of the unemployed and lazy just to get votes. All on the back of the working class. If you don't think it needs to be reformed you are part of the problem. Feel free to take in to your own home any of those "poor" welfare recipients.
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