John Cornyn: “The Obama administration's disastrous decision to roll back…”

“This is a big one. The number of children living in poverty declined by 2.9%. Unfortunately, this era of bipartisan consensus and good policy was turned upside down by The Obama administration's disastrous decision to roll back the TANF work requirements by issuing waivers. The US government spends $1 trillion on means tested programs and work requirements are a common sense way to reform these programs and to save hard earned tax dollars of …” (05:00–05:09)

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