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From Fox News: While Democrats predict major problems with a provision within the “one big, beautiful bill” that adds a work requirement for adults to be eligible for Medicaid, Republican senators are praising the requirement, saying, “We’ve got to get back to work.”
The provision requires able-bodied, childless adults between the ages of 18 and 64 to work at least 80 hours a month to be eligible to receive Medicaid benefits. Individuals can also meet the requirement by participating in community service, going to school or engaging in a work program.
“We have folks back home right now harvesting wheat that are working 20 hours in a day,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital. “We want you to go to college, we want to volunteer, work 20 hours a week, it brings dignity, it brings purpose to your lives. Work is a great thing; it’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Seven million healthy American men out there of working age are not working right now,” Marshall continued. “We happen to have seven million open jobs as well. I think I want to do everything I can to help those seven million men find a job. Whether that’s through an education or community colleges, technical colleges, I think there’s lots of opportunity out there.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS):
“When they talk about people not being on Medicaid anymore, half of those people are on it because of fraud or some type of abuse of the system, the other half is because they’re unwilling to work 20 hours a week.”
Well said.pic.twitter.com/BLF65pVJWf
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 30, 2025
Getting ready to watch President @realDonaldTrump sign the One Big, Beautiful Bill on America’s birthday 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/L3NZojsnQ8
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) July 4, 2025
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., weighed in saying “the disincentives to work are a real problem here in America.”
“It’s amazing that Democrats are trying to make this argument,” Hagerty said. “I don’t think that taxpayers should be footing the bill at all for able-bodied citizens. And certainly, non-citizens should not be getting the benefit of this.
“We need to incentivize work. And certainly, you don’t want to be incentivizing a burden on taxpayers.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS):
“When they talk about people not being on Medicaid anymore, half of those people are on it because of fraud or some type of abuse of the system, the other half is because they’re unwilling to work 20 hours a week.”
Well said.pic.twitter.com/BLF65pVJWf
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 30, 2025
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. Said “We’ve got to take care of the people that need to be taken care of and it’s just unfortunate you’ve got a lot of freeloaders in this country.”
Tuberville said freeloaders “are coming from the younger ranks because they’ve grown up, they’ve got all these student loans, they got a degree that’s not worth anything, they can’t get a job or they don’t want to work and so the way they’ve done they’ve turned into socialists, they started living off the government.”
“We can’t have that. We’ve got to get back to work. This country is built on hard work,” he said.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said the work requirement is necessary because “quite honestly, what we’re trying to do is stop enrollment in that Obamacare addition to Medicaid.”
“They call it Medicaid expansion, but it’s Obamcare. It was Democrats’ way of trying to turn us into a single-payer system. And so, it incentivized the states to sign up single able-bodied individuals,” he claimed.
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