On Wednesday morning, the New York Times handed over space on the editorial page to allow members of Donald Trump's cabinet to pitch the idea that being booted off welfare is the "opportunity" of a lifetime.
Under a headline that bluntly stated, "Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must," Trump inner circle members Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Mehmet Oz, Brooke Rollins and Scott Turner insisted there are too many "able-bodied" Americans who are receiving government assistance.
As they put it, the plans to force Americans off the rolls should be contained in, as they called it, "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill."
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"Too many able-bodied adults on welfare are not working at all. And too often we don’t even ask them to. For many, welfare is no longer a lifeline to self-sufficiency but a lifelong trap of dependency," they wrote before adding, "Our agencies are united in a very straightforward policy approach: able-bodied adults receiving benefits must work, participate in job training or volunteer in their communities at least 20 hours a week."
Maintaining they believe, "welfare dependency, not work" is a "barrier," the appointed cabinet secretaries added, "There are millions of open jobs around the country, with more on the way as President Trump’s job-creation policies are fully implemented," while insisting, "This is about opportunity. We believe that work is transformative for the individual who moves from welfare to employment."
They then served notice, "At the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development, we are ready to implement work requirements," if Donald Trump gets what he wants out of Congress.
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