‘When you make young men work, it’s good for their dignity’: Johnson defends $880 billion Medicaid cuts as character building

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Recommended VideosAccording to MSNBC, Johnson insisted that the Republican-led initiative does not constitute cuts but rather introduces work requirements aimed at addressing what he describes as “fraud, waste and abuse” in the system. The speaker specifically targeted “able-bodied workers, young men” in his defense of the new requirements. After passing a budget that aims to cut Medicaid by $880 billion in ten years House Speaker Johnson says: "You return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day." This projection has contributed to significant public opposition, with Kaiser Family Foundation polling from April indicating that 76 percent of Americans oppose major cuts to Medicaid. The Republican-backed legislation’s emphasis on work requirements has sparked debate about the relationship between employment and access to healthcare benefits.