[TwelveOfTwenty]

We can sure as hell cut off the welfare too.

We don't have the votes to overcome the dems pandering anymore, so that isn't going to happen any time soon. The only option I see is to starve the beast. I'm open to other suggestions.

[RC one]

I am hopeful that the right conservative minded President can reverse course on federal welfare spending and government spending in general. The federal government has no business providing welfare benefits to anybody ever AFAIC. That's a state level function and the voters of each state should have the power to control how their tax dollars are (are aren't) spent on welfare.

To put this problem in perspective:

Ranking Member Sessions and the minority staff of the Senate Budget Committee requested from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) an overview of cumulative means-tested federal welfare spending in the United States in the most recent year for which data is available (fiscal year 2011). The results are staggering. CRS identified 83 overlapping federal welfare programs that together represented the single largest budget item in 2011—more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare, or national defense. The total amount spent on these 80-plus federal welfare programs amounts to roughly $1.03 trillion. Importantly, these figures solely refer to means-tested welfare benefits. They exclude entitlement programs to which people contribute (e.g., Social Security and Medicare).