The Republican Commission of Inquiry’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget will propose amendments to key welfare programs, including several programs that provide cash directly to beneficiaries.

The budget, an excerpt obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller ahead of its announcement Wednesday, directs all federal benefit programs to include work requirements and limits cash payments to beneficiaries. It will also convert some programs into state block grants and eliminate marriage penalties throughout the welfare system. (Related: Exclusive: RSC Chairman Kevin Hahn Calls for ‘Strong Debt Consolidation Bill’ by End of April)

“For too long, the Left has forced the American people into dependence on government welfare programs. giving and moving from dependency to independence,” RSC Budget Expenditure Task Force Chair Ben Klein said in a statement to the Daily Caller. “People would rather support themselves and their families than prolong their economic hardship. Now is the time to get the American people back to work and leave behind the disastrous policies of President Biden and the Left.”

Government benefits during and after the COVID-19 pandemic are contributing to the workforce shortageeconomists generally agree.COVID-19 relief package initially gave recipients $600 supplement Unemployment insurance effectively increases by $15 an hour. Many Republican-led states eventually rejected the American Rescue Plan’s increased unemployment, and employment numbers recovered faster than states that maintained expansion.

The RSC’s budget would limit unemployment insurance payments to the recipient’s previous salary level. It also mandates the actual employment of work-eligible recipients of temporary assistance for needy families. The current structure is program Each state is required to meet a certain labor force participation rate in order to receive distributable funds. The RSC plan also prohibits states from using TANF funds to pay for other programs.

In addition to tightening labor requirements, the RSC budget promotes marriage by eliminating tax penalties for couples who take advantage of welfare programs and rights.economist Across of Political spectrum has I got it Adults living together who live just above the poverty line benefit more than couples from programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, the child tax credit, and the earned income tax credit.

House Republicans are already gearing up for a protracted battle with the Senate and the White House over fiscal 2024 appropriation proceedings. The Fiscal Responsibility Act sets a budget cap for domestic discretionary spending in FY2024 at the level of FY2022 and caps defense spending in FY2024 at a 3.3% increase. But some lawmakers want all discretionary spending capped at levels for fiscal 2022, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kay Granger calling for the cap on the Fiscal Responsibility Act. It says it will pursue this goal by recording spending below .

Senators from both parties have argued that spending levels should be capped, including Susan Collins of Maine, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. saying The member will “rise” to the upper limit. Others, including minority leader Mitch McConnell, anxiety He thought the House budget would limit defense spending.

RSC aides said the RSC budget would cut spending by $16.3 trillion over 10 years and cut taxes by $5.1 trillion over the same period.