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That welfare-expanding provision remains in the Senate stimulus compromise, alas, the language of which has now been released. (You can read it BELOW.) I can't help but think that if even a few Republicans squawked the potentially damaging publicity might force the Dems to drop it or at least rewrite it (to fund hard hit states, for example, whether or not they expand their welfare caseloads). ... Update: The New York Times gives the game away by explicitly calling for "rolling back work requirements" in an editorial endorsing the stimulus welfare provision. These are people who never liked welfare reform's work requirements in the first place. ... 1:16 A.M.
0Subtitle BAssistance for Vulnerable Individuals SEC. 2101. EMERGENCY FUND FOR TANF PROGRAM. (a) TEMPORARY FUND. (1) IN GENERAL.Section 403 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603) is amended by adding at the end the following: (c) EMERGENCY FUND. (1) ESTABLISHMENT.There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund which shall be known as the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs (in this subsection referred to as the Emergency Fund). (2) DEPOSITS INTO FUND. (A) IN GENERAL.Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated for fiscal year 2009, $3,000,000,000 for payment to the Emergency Fund. (B) AVAILABILITY AND USE OF FUNDS. The amounts appropriated to the Emergency Fund under subparagraph (A) shall remain available through fiscal year 2010 and shall be used to make grants to States in each of fiscal...
