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On the recordJuly 11, 2017
These so-called welfare payments, I think you all have described sort of a system where we are not rewarding specific acts, in the amount of just welfare payments to help people who are coming on tough times.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio critiques the nature of welfare payments and their implications.

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