Trump, Medicaid and GOP
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House Speaker Mike Johnson shepherded through Congress President Trump's spending bill, which includes Medicaid work requirements.
Speaker Mike Johnson, who oversaw the passage of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in the House, insisted to "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that projections that nearly 200,000 people in his home state of Louisiana will lose Medicaid under the bill are actually targeting "waste,
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” which includes Medicaid cuts, arguing that only those who are defrauding the program will lose coverage, and
House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed adding a Medicaid work requirement to the Republican spending bill has a "moral component."
The House votes in favor of "big beautiful bill." If bill passes Senate, some will see tax cuts and millions could lose Medicaid coverage.
And what will they mean for the millions of low-income people who might lose health care benefits as a result?
Work requirements — better understood as benefit limits for the unemployed — are the centerpiece of Medicaid and food benefit cuts Republicans are using to offset part of the cost of tax cuts at the heart of their so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Work requirements were the core of a 1996 welfare reform bill that Clinton signed into law.
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed the House on Thursday after lawmakers wrestled with the legislation during an all-night session. The GOP spending bill now