White House promises welfare overhaul details early next year

[November 21, 2017]    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will provide details of its plans to overhaul welfare in the first few weeks of 2018, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attends the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

"This is something that the president has a great deal of interest in and I think you can count on probably the first part of next year seeing more specifics and details come out on that," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a press briefing when asked about Trump's comment earlier on Monday that "people are taking advantage of the system."

(Reporting by James Oliphant; Writing by Eric Walsh; Editing by Eric Beech)

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