How about the GOP offer a welfare reform plan to merge 50 or so different programs (free phones, food stamps, AFDC. WIC et al) into a monthly cash dole, thereby eliminating all the duplicate bureaucracy from them and stuff. It could increase benefits a bit and still save dozens of billions of dollars a year.
Call it the Cash Welfare Increase Act, lol
Would be a worthwhile exercise simply to bring transparency to the sum total outlay of all those programs. (I also wouldn't mind a proposal to have the recipients wear a giant scarlet letter at all times.)