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Eric Hovde: “Today our welfare system is bigger than it was before Bill…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Eric Hovde, Ben Shapiro interview

Published | Video Starts at 10:07

So Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich brought about welfare reform that helped the economic growth of the nineties meaningfully, and it pulled a lot of people into the workforce. Well, Today our welfare system is bigger than it was before Bill Clinton [and] Newt Gingrich did [welfare reform]. that. So we're choking on regulation. We have a welfare system completely out of control, and we need to correct those two things as we're pulling down this federal spending to really get the economy growing and get people's real wages growing. (10:07–10:12)

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Asserts that the current welfare system is larger than it was before the reforms of the 1990s.

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