Bush’s promise for Social Security was broken in 2002 when he spent $159 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund surplus. His welfare promise was to provide states with an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to their homes whenever safely possible. His promise fell through when he let states use the federal funds for foster care room and board payments to be used for preventative services. All the states had to do was accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they could receive (Broken
Bush’s promise for Social Security was broken in 2002 when he spent $159 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund surplus. His welfare promise was to provide states with an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to their homes whenever safely possible. His promise fell through when he let states use the federal funds for foster care room and board payments to be used for preventative services. All the states had to do was accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they could receive (Broken