MAGAt Moses Mike Johnson: "Every single American" should be "applauding" GOP-imposed Medicaid work requirements

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON — Republicans have a strategy for moving Medicaid cuts through Congress when many of their own members say they can’t support cuts: Don’t call them cuts.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that nobody will miss the hundreds of billions of dollars Republicans want to chop from the program, which covers health care costs for more than 70 million Americans.

“We’re not gutting Medicaid. We’re going to reduce fraud, waste and abuse, which every single American should be applauding,” Johnson said.

The meaning of “fraud, waste and abuse” in this context includes regular Medicaid benefits for unemployed adults without children or disabilities, who have received coverage in most states thanks to the health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The money spent covering their health costs, in Republicans’ view, is a waste.

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