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May 23, 2023
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Biden once supported work requirements for social benefits—he should do so again
Patrick T. Brown
CNN

A debt ceiling endgame could be in sight, even if an agreement is far from a sure thing. And part of the deal in helping America avoid default may be tightening work requirements on safety-net programs.

It may not be an obvious play. The biggest drivers of our federal deficits are entitlement spending on Social Security and Medicare. Prime-age labor force participation rates are at their highest in the past 15 years. And the potential consequences of default far outweigh domestic policy disagreements.

Yet Republicans have leverage in these debt ceiling negotiations, whether the Biden White House wishes to acknowledge it or not, and safety-net reform has emerged as a place of some consensus on the right. According to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy now sees work requirements as a “red line” in any potential deal.
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For National Review, Alexandra DeSanctis reports that Republicans in Iowa and South Carolina, early primary states, back the heartbeat bills Donald Trump has criticized and Governor Ron DeSantis has supported ([link removed]) .
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For WORLD Opinions, Brad Littlejohn argues that Europe’s looming pension crisis is a warning to the United States ([link removed]) .
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Also for WORLD, Jennifer Patterson writes that conservatives need to pay attention to the federal bureaucracies ([link removed]) that make culture-shifting policy changes.
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Good Samaritans don’t stand by and do nothing while others are threatened and attacked ([link removed]) , writes Nathanael Blake for The Federalist.
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Thursday, May 25, 7 PM
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On Thursday, Carl Trueman will talk to Islamic theologian Hamza Yusuf about their shared work on the genealogy of the modern self and how we might preserve and protect our true selves in a strange new world.
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