At the beginning of this week, House Republican leadership was gearing up to pass a bill cutting a program called the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or tanf. Yep, that action is as bad as it sounds. Taking resources away from needy kids. Republicans designed the bill to hoard money and push more kids into poverty. Why? They're looking for ways to offset Trump's wasteful vanity projects. That includes his proposals to spend $1 billion bailing out his ballroom in Republicans next bad budget bill. (00:33–00:38)
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Asserts that the Republican bill aimed to hoard money and increase child poverty.
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