A safety net is not a campground, regardless of what a lot of bleeding hearts seem to think. Kicking out campers is not a bad thing.
Federal anti-poverty spending has rapidly escalated for 50 years, regardless of the party controlling Washington.
Cut funding for poor people now!
A budget cut in government is not an actual cut, it is merely less of an increase in spending that they want. I worked for a public employee union for many years, and most of the annual increases budgeted for programs went for employee wage and benefit raises. Whenever there were budget problems and they didn’t think they were going to get their raises, they would run adds about firing police, firefighters and teachers, and starving children along with old people dying in the street. None of that was true if the already well paid “public servants” could manage to survive on a smaller raise. But they didn’t. They went on strikes, spent fortunes on lobbyists, and had bought and paid for politicians raise taxes.
Business executives know that cost cutting can actually make you produce more. Extra people in a company hurt productivity. Government always argues that more money spent on government gives you more benefits for citizens. But it normally just benefits the government employee’s union.
American industry is the most productive in the world because of the layoffs every decade. Unnecessary employees and under performing employees are forced to move to jobs the economy needs and stops rich companies from hording employees and forces companies to innovate and cut out unproductive processes.
And it won't lift a single soul out of poverty.