… they make a dollar more, which is the way you do this, that you lose $2 in benefits. We need to have more of a smoothing out of these benefits. We need to help people nudge them off the benefit programs. We shouldn't measure success by how many people we get on. We should measure success how many people we get off and get into a good paying job. That was the premise by how we had budget surpluses under Clinton and Newt Gingrich. So let's talk about the one big, beautiful bill that passed here. (05:38–05:48)
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Asserts that success should be measured by moving people off benefit programs into good-paying jobs.
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