GOP's Re-Configuring Its Anti-Welfare Strategy

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 19 October 2021 04:45 PM
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GOP's Re-Configuring Its Anti-Welfare Strategy

House Republicans, who collectively object to a proposal by Democrats to push through a massive social welfare bill, will start their own campaign next week rebuking the legislation as “welfare expansion.”

Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee will hold a roundtable forum on Wednesday highlighting how the GOP thinks the plan will hurt the economy, create government dependency, and remove jobs.

“The meeting will focus on the massive welfare state expansion included in Democrats’ Build Back Better reconciliation bill and how policies that foster government dependency ultimately fail our most vulnerable families and children,” committee Republicans announced Friday.

Republicans in the House are committed to the minority. They have no power to stop Democrats from passing the measure over their objections.

But Democrats are fighting privately to develop a top-line cost and system language that can win over their centrists. The GOP roundtable criticizing the package will occur as Democrats reconvene to cut a deal by an October 31 deadline.

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Republicans can make it harder for the Democrats to agree by increasing criticisms of the massive package.

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“Even though the U.S. has more than 10 million job openings and is facing a worker shortage, Democrats are making the largest expansion of the welfare state in our lifetimes and discouraging work, threatening the recovery of our post-COVID economy,” Republicans on the panel said Friday.

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Democrats hope to change and increase the nation’s trust in government by passing legislation that creates a broad array of new programs and financial assistance.

House Democrats in September wrote a plan with a $3.5 trillion price tag but are now forced to cut the program back to about $2 trillion or less due to the objections of Senate centrists Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

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Republicans say none of the spendings is required in the wake of trillions of federal dollars already passed by Congress in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new round of spending offered by Democrats will threaten the nation’s economic recovery that Republicans say they’ll highlight on Wednesday.

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The Democratic plan would eliminate work requirements for the child tax credit and other government programs, ending years of bipartisan agreement that the work requirement helped transition people out of poverty.

Some polls show the public is oblivious to the details in the bill, which could give the GOP an opportunity to shape public opinion.

“With inflation rising and employers struggling to hire, the country can’t afford to relegate an entire generation of workers to the sidelines,” Republicans said Friday.

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