President Mike Johnson, R-La., On Sunday, defended the MEDICAIDI cups in the budget of the House budget republicans adopted last month, saying that “4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose it to do so”.
Johnson told NBC News “meet the press” according to which the bill imposes the work requirements “common sense” for certain beneficiaries of Medicaid and added that he “does not buy” the argument that the work requirements, which would require beneficiaries of Medicaid, work of Medicaid, to work, participate in vocational training programs or volunteer for 80 hours per month.
“You tell me that you will need the validated, these young men, for example, OK, to work or volunteer in their community for 20 hours per week. And is it too heavy for them? ” Johnson told the “Meet the Press” moderator, Kristen Welker. “I don't buy it. The American people do not buy it. ”
The bill also adds new paperas rules and requirements for Medicaid recipients and increases eligibility checks and deals with checks.
Johnson argued that the work requirements “should have been put on a long time ago”.
“People who complain that these people will lose their coverage because they cannot fill the documents, it is a minor application of this policy, and that follows common sense,” added Johnson.
Johnson's comments arise while the Republicans faced a hindsight in the town hall for the Medicaid cuts in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” package which passed the festive lines in the Chamber last month.
Representatives Mike Flood, R-Neb., And Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, were hooked when they mentioned their support for the package during events of their districts. Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, also faced a decline after defending the proposed cuts, telling the participants in a town hall on Friday that “we are all going to die”.
This decision also faced criticism from certain Senate Republicans. Last month, before the Chamber adopted its bill, Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., An editorial of the New York Times That there is a “party wing [that] wants the Republicans to build our large and beautiful invoice around the reduction of health insurance for workers. But this argument is both morally bad and politically suicidal. »»
In an interview on “Face The Nation” of CBS on Sunday, Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Also expressed his disdain for the disposition of Medicaid, the calling “a bad strategy” when asked to respond to Hawley's assertion that the legislation would not play well for the Republicans.
“I think it was a bad strategy,” said Paul, adding later, “they should have been satisfied by simply doing the tax part of this and not getting involved in the debt part.
Democrats and other opponents of the bill have seized a number of provisions which include hundreds of billions of dollars in reduction of the additional nutritional aid and Medicaid program, a federal program that provides health care to low -income Americans.
The Democrats, including Senator Raphael Warnock, D-GA., Who appeared in the program after Johnson, argued that the beneficiaries of Medicaid who are triggered by the declaration requirements which should be imposed alongside new work requirements will lead to the loss of coverage of health care for millions.
“This is what this legislation does, they are trying to do. They will throw the poor,” Warnock told Welker.
Warnock has referred to a study that his office conducted in his state of georgia that he said: “shows that this working relationship requirement – because this is what we are talking about, not working requirements, working relationship requirements – is very good for launching people from their health care.”
“It's not at all good to encourage work,” he added.
The bill is now going to the Senate, where Johnson said he was convinced that this would progress and went to President Donald Trump's office by July 4.
“We are going to do this. The sooner will be best,” said Johnson on Sunday, adding later: “We are going to go to the president's office, and he will have a – we are all going to have a glorious celebration on independence day, by July 4, when he is signed.”
