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Welfare reform being gutted?

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    Bipartisan reform threatened

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22 minutes after the hour now it's time for another look at who's talking this morning and this morning welfare reform is another big talker a whole lot of Republican lawmakers are really outraged.

Over the Obama administration possibly got in welfare reform.

The Department of Health and Human Services may actually strip the program.

Of its strict work requirements while Iowa's governor Terry Branstad he worked for the Clinton administration on the bipartisan welfare reforms that happened.

Back in the mid 1990s.

Reacted to this news yesterday on FOX News Sunday listen here.

Iowa's governor along with Tommy Thompson from Wisconsin John Engler from Michigan when we worked -- it.

The administration back when Bill Clinton was president to get the welfare reform passed to move it from an entitlement program to a program that focused on.

Job training and work and we help move.

Millions of people off the welfare rolls in new permanent employment.

We reduce the cost of welfare and Medicaid as a result of it it was very successful.

And now we see this administration.

Trying to got it I think it's -- legal because he's in the law I don't think they have a right to -- it I know Tommy Thompson is saying he's thinking about suing them over -- I think it's absolutely wrong and a move in the wrong direction the focus needs to be on helping people to move from welfare to work.

Not making people permanently dependent on the government welfare program.

While will be hearing a lot more about this when in the meantime Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott also weighed in on this issue.

Say that the federal government that taxpayers simply can't afford to us.

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