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As the new Republican-led Congress gets underway, we’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about cutting the social safety net programs that throw a lifeline to those in need and help people climb out of poverty—things like food assistance, free school lunches and Pell Grants that pay for college. And while some in Congress have ripped the veil off their underlying meanness, saying that giving any assistance to those in poverty makes them “dependent” and “lazy,” many are still hewing to the party line that they’re just too expensive.