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Democrats have gone against potential cuts Medicaid since the President Donald Trump He won the 2024 presidential election. Now that its “big, beautiful bill” has gone through Congress, they make Medicaid a major conversation, ahead of the competitive intermediate elections, which are expected in 2026.
Meanwhile Republicans will double Medicaid reform included In Megabill Trump, which also includes extensive tax, immigration and energy legislation.
“My policy is that if you are a able-bodied worker, get a damn job,” Fox News Rep. Nancy Macy, Rs.c. “If you want public payments, go to work and get a job.”
The MEGABILL position requires able -bodied, childless adults between the ages of 18 and 64 to work at least 80 hours a month to get the eligible for Medicaid. Persons can also meet the requirements by participating in the utilities, going to school or doing a work program.
Republicans praise the “great, wonderful” job requirement for Medicaid: “We must return to work”
Res. Three Carter, Georgia, and Senator Katie Brit, Alabama, talked to Fox News digital requirements for Medicaid’s work. (Nicholas Balasy – Fox News Digital)
Digital Fox News asked the legislators on the Capitolian hill if the taxpayers will have to pay for Medicaid accounts for working workers who have not reached 65 years and unemployed.
Senator Angus King, independent of Men, stated both in Arkansas and Georgia, where the requirements for work had already been introduced, ultimately cost taxpayers more money to manage work requirements.
“We are talking about a very small population, and in two cases when they tried, it ended, number one, disqualified people who met all the requirements but refused documents. These are not people who used to fill a lot of documents a month. And it also cost the state a lot for introduction,” King said.
The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that Arkansas’ Medicaid job requirement From 2018 to 2019, “did not find evidence of employment increase … and significant loss of Medicaid coverage among low income adults.”
Demonstrators calling for maintaining Medicaid financing are removed from the home -made home -made fy2025 resolution in the Rayburn budget resolution on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Similarly, the Georgia’s budget and policy institution (GBPI) said that 80% of $ 58 million spent in the first year of Georgia’s ways to cover, went to administrative expenses.
But hay. Katie BritR-Ala., Emphasized that Republicans “want these programs to be near the people they need.” She said the Medicaid reform is “strengthening and maintaining these programs with the speed they are growing.”
“These programs were to be security networks, not the hammocks in which people remain, and the success of these programs should be measured by how many people we leave them,” Brit said.
Senator Bill Casidi, Ran.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson appears with the media after the house narrowly accepted President Donald Trump’s agenda in the US Capitol on May 22, 2025 in Washington, Columbia District, Colombia (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“We don’t say,” Hey we don’t throw you out. “Okay, but you have to go to work.
But the Democrats Who talked to digital Fox News He continued to push away from the requirements of the work included in the “big, beautiful bill”.
“I think people (which) are able to work, believe me, they work better than get the dollars they get from Medicaid. The emergency assume that a person was sitting at home rather and not working and getting that scanty money. All this was completely expanded to conform to the story.
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And reporter Latefah Simon, D-Calif.
Fox News’ Peter Pinet contributed to this report.
