Clarence Page: Old 'welfare queen' legends haunt Trump’s budget plan

Capitalism’s rolling back of welfare spending

Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which got passed by both houses in the U.S. and has now become law, is a massive assault on welfare spending.

Clarence Page: Old 'welfare queen' legends haunt Trump’s budget plan

As the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives neared passage of President Donald Trump’s beloved — and enormous — “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” my mind raced back as it often does in such debates to memories of the late Linda…