Posted on 01/04/2018 6:32:46 AM PST by blam
The Donald Trump administration hopes to unveil a new Labor Department regulation in June requiring drug testing for unemployment benefits. Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal an Obama-era regulation that limited states’ ability to limit drug testing for people who apply for unemployment benefits.
After President Trump signed the CRA repealing the Obama-era regulation, House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) said:
President Trump just signed into law my bill that abolishes an Obama-era rule. After five years of battling with the Obama Department of Labor, states like Texas will now be allowed to drug test folks on unemployment to ensure they are job-ready from day one. This is a win for families, workers, job creators, and local economies.
Chairman Brady proposed the bill with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sponsored the Senate version of the CRA.
American unemployment claims remain at a 17-year record low, and American consumer sentiment reached its highest level since 2000, according to the University of Michigan.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Pushes Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients
"Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he would push legislation that would require working-age adults receiving food stamps or unemployment benefits to submit to drug testing."
Also, every elected official and government employee.
“Weeping and gnashing of teeth”
Good call!
The money goes to finance their habit instead of food and rent otherwise. Drug testing should be required for ALL taxpayer-funded benefits.
Oh the horror of it all. Oh the horror.
Where does the country go after dropping lazy pot smoking good for nothing people off the free ride.
Yes, and check for pot and deny all benefits if on pot. Liberal states will $hit their pants.
Why is it that it’s Upwardly Mobile people who want the poor to be able to be flush with weed? Meanwhile, an 18 year old with an average IQ of 100 using 3 times a week for 20 years, will suffer an 8 point UNRECOVERABLE loss, to go down to 92 IQ, so that, when he started, 50% of people were smarter than him, 71% of people are smarter than him at age 38.
I just got polled (this last weekend) on this and numerous other items in Trump’s agenda. about a 20 minute phone survey.
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...to repeal an Obama-era regulation that limited states’ ability to limit drug testing for people who apply for unemployment benefits.
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How ‘bout REMOVING the States’ (AND Feds) ability to trample upon our property Rights (5th) and [economic] indentured servitude (13th) instead?!
WHOLE lot more than ‘2 birds’ w/ that ONE stone...
A wonderful idea, long overdue, which will no doubt be blocked by a Liberal judge ten minutes after the ink dries.
The Feds would have to pay for it, and I suspect it will cost more money than it saves.
Sounds good, but testing for welfare is much more important.
Employers pay into a fund for unemployment benefits. And a person has to have worked for a certain length of time to collect if laid off. Quitting or getting fired for cause does not entitle one to unemployment benefits.
Also, the benefits expire, whereas welfare goes on forever.
I think this is a much lower priority than the welfare side of the coin.
Unemployment benefits are a good start.
Would be interesting to know how many people who are on long term unemployment and have been on multiple times are on unemployment because they can’t pass the whiz quiz.
In my flyover state, you are virtually guaranteed a manufacturing job if you can pass the drug screening.
The point is that those claiming unemployment benefits, being too stoned or high to take any job, need not be getting benefits - period!
Yes, they’ve presumably paid in to the benefit but their former employers did also, at a cost to everyone and now the unemployed wants to pretend to be looking for another job, while laying around all day, doing drugs!
Does the unemployment office send the person out on job interviews, all the while the employee couldn’t pass the drug test now required by most employers?
Were I in charge, the first time the unemployed was refused work because they either failed the mandatory drug test or refused to take one, that person’s benefits would cease, no more benefits.
I would not have any problem passing such a test, But I consider this an extreme invasion of privacy. This is not welfare. This is insurance that was paid for by your Employer. Nothing could be more wrong. But you brave new world types seem to love the idea. What ways do you want to be tested next? No doubt they will extract your DNA while they are at it. You are all like sheep to the slaughter.
Drug testing for welfare recipients needs to start immediately.
As a taxpayer, having my taxes go for food stamps, then the schools “have” to give free food, including now breakfast, lunch AND dinner AND giving the students back packs to take home in Friday’s so “they will have food to eat!”
I’m well aware as to why the teacher’s unions glommed on to the “free lunch scams,” so they can claim so many schools are “high risk” to claim higher and higher $$$$$ tax dollars from Uncle Sugar, now Santa Clause, is exactly why.
Everyone’s on the US Santa Clause gravy train but the US citizen taxpayers!
You gotta know that’s RACIST!
The Florida scotus shot down a similar law for welfare recipients.
I’m so tired of judicial tyranny.
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