Voters on YouCut Vote to Eliminate Program that Expands the Welfare State

Kiki Bradley / May 18, 2010

Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) launched an innovative new tool in the fight to cut spending called YouCut.  It allows regular American citizens to vote to cut wasteful spending in Congress. Its purpose is to challenge the culture of spending that has dominated Congressional thinking and replace it with a renewed focus on savings.

Weekly, YouCut will post several wasteful spending programs and give citizens a week to vote on which they favor most being eliminated.  The results are announced the following week and House Republicans will force a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to attempt to cut that funding.

YouCut announced today, that after receiving over 280,000 votes, the first dubious winner voted to be eliminated was the TANF Emergency Fund – a $5 billion program included in the infamous stimulus package that actually rewards states with bonus money for increasing the size of their welfare caseloads. (more…)