Progressives seem to have, almost overnight, lost the war of ideas in the White House—at least when it comes to dated policy prescriptions like work requirements.
The president’s newfound openness to work requirements would mark a stunning retrenchment from a man who, just two years ago, signed into law the largest expansion of the welfare state in decades.
Then the program expired after a year, and a barrage of lobbying by conservative groups just so happened to coincide with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin having an epiphany that the benefit was going to layabouts. He pulled his support for it. In the easiest cause-and-effect sequence imaginable, the policy died, and child poverty rocketed upward.That isn’t the only welfare program that’s been throttled since then.
Those cuts to all sides of the welfare state are profound, but it is Biden’s willingness to consider the return of work requirements that marks the biggest intellectual whiplash of his entire presidency.“the evolution of the Democratic Party.” As that story put it: “Once fearful of race-baiting rhetoric on supposedly lazy ‘welfare queens,’ the party now is largely unapologetic about spending money to strengthen the social safety net.
Now the legitimacy of work requirements has been given new life by the president. After the already deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a new round of restrictions could be devastating to the program.
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