"It's a slap in the face to Ronald Reagan," said Robert Rector, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. "It's a victory for a massive welfare state without work requirements and an out-of-control budget."
Kansas senator's consensus building may cost him support →
The government has spent $11 trillion on the war on poverty since it was declared by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964, said Robert Rector, senior research fellow with the Heritage Foundation.
Obama's $6 billion poverty platform →
