Republicans defend Medicaid reform as Democrats warn of harmful cuts

President Donald Trump raided the Democrats after winning the 2024 presidential election. Now that his “big, beautiful bill” has passed through Congress, he is talking a top to Medicade before the expected competitive mid -term elections in 2026.

Meanwhile, the Medicade reforms included in the megabil of Republican Trump are doubled, including comprehensive laws on taxes, immigration and energy.

“My policy is that if you are a competent worker, get a shame job,” rape. Nancy Mess, Rs., Fox News told Digital. “If you want government benefits, go to work and get a job.”

A provision in the megabil requires at least 80 hours a month to be eligible to get a medicade benefits between the ages of 18 and 64 for a provision. Individuals can also fulfill the need by participating in community service, going to school or engaging in the work program.

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Fox News Digital asked MPs on Capital Hill whether taxpayers should pay for the Medicade Bill for competent workers who are less than 65 and unemployed.

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Sen Angus King, an independent from Main, said in both Arkansus and Georgia, where the requirements of the work have already been implemented, it ended the cost of more funds to meet the requirements of the taxpayers.

“We are talking about a very small population, and in two cases where they tried it, it is finished, number one, disqualifying all the requirements, but left on paperwork. These are not people who are used to fill a lot of paperwork every month.

New England Journal of Medicine found that Arkansas’ Medicade work requirement From 2018 to 2019 “no evidence of increased employment was found … and a significant disadvantage of medicade coverage among low -income adults.”

Similarly, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) said that 80% of the $ 58 million spent in the first year of Georgia went towards administrative costs for the coverage program.

But Sen. Katie BritR-Ella., Emphasized that Republican “wants these programs to be around for those who need them.” He said that medicade improvement is “about strengthening and preserving these programs that they are growing.”

“The purpose of these programs was security trap, not the swing people who live, and the success of these programs should be measured as to how many people we get away from,” the Brit said.

Sen Bill Cassidi, R-La., Agreed, Telling Fox News Digital, “Who you don’t want anyone to be dependent for anyone. I will tell people: The safety trap should bounce you on your feet.

“We are not saying,” Hey, we are not throwing you out. ” All is well, but you get a job.

But the Democrats, who talked to Fox News Digital, continued to push back against the needs of the work included in the “Bade, Sundar Bill”.

“I think people [who] Able to work, trust me, they will work instead of obtaining the pudding dollar from the medicid. It is derogatory to suggest that a person will sit at home instead of work and receive this short amount. All of this is fully expanded to fit just a story that allows them to cut into those who are actually worth the medicid, “rape. Troy Carter, D-La., Said.

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And rape. Latefah Simon, D-Calif. Said, “We need to be able to be a basic structure in this country that supports elderly and sick and widows and children. This bill, it violates all those basic principles.”

Fox News’ Peter Pineedo contributed to this report.