{"id":226,"date":"2026-06-11T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=226"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:03:03","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8our-welfare-system-desperately-needs-mandatory-drug-testing-for-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8Our welfare system desperately needs mandatory drug testing for applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our welfare system desperately needs mandatory drug testing for applicants. Taxpayers deserve assurance that their hard-earned money supports those in genuine need, not those funding destructive habits. This step promotes real accountability and helps break the cycle of dependency.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Far too often, government assistance enables bad choices instead of empowering better ones. Requiring a clean drug test upholds fairness for everyone involved and reinforces the value of personal responsibility that built this great nation.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>It\u2019s time to reform welfare into a true safety net that lifts people up. By demanding accountability through testing, we save taxpayer dollars, strengthen communities, and give individuals the dignity of self-sufficiency they deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our welfare system desperately needs mandatory drug testing for applicants. Taxpayers deserve assurance that their hard-earned money supports those in genuine need, not those funding destructive habits. This step promotes &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}