Newt did not “push through welfare reform.”
President Clinton vetoed the bill when first passed.
What happened next?
Newt and the GOP caved. They added in billions and billions in NEW entitlement spending, including federally-funded childcare benefits, new Medicaid eligibility, job subsidies and so on.
With all this NEW entitlement spending, President Clinton then happily signed the “improved” bill.
Who won that round, please?
Newt didn’t push through anything. The GOP got this “legislative victory” the old-fashioned way: they bought it. Anybody can do that.
And then President Clinton got to claim that he reformed welfare AND raised entitlement spending! Sweet!
NOT.
Not fair using facts, not fair. LOL