Obama On Romney’s Welfare Attacks: ‘You Can’t Just Make Stuff Up’

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President Obama on Monday criticized the Romney campaign’s assertion in ads and on the trail that his administration ended the work requirement for welfare.

“You can’t just make stuff up,” Obama told reporters in a surprise appearance at the daily White House briefing. “That’s something that you learn as President of the United States.”

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