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Matt Gaetz BURNS Himself With Agonizing Stripping Plot On-Air
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4:02Now PlayingMatt Gaetz exposes his and other Republicans' target of stripping crucial Medicaid in debt ceiling budgeting during a right-wing interview. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Matt Gaetz says he's 'unifying' Republicans around a longtime Republican policy
"Rep. Matt Gaetz is not going to let himself be left out of House Republican efforts to hold the people and economy of the United States hostage in a debt ceiling fight. But Gaetz also doesn’t have many ideas of his own, so he’s pushing one of the disco hits: work requirements for Medicaid.
“Work requirements are proving to be a very unifying concept with my colleagues,” Gaetz told Semafor, as if it was somehow an achievement that he was getting Republicans to support a policy that Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states were pushing in 2015, and for which the Trump administration offered waivers that a dozen states received. Gaetz is not exactly working magic by getting Republicans to express support. But the idea is just as awful as you’d guess based on who’s behind it.
Medicaid work requirements are one of these things Republicans trot out to demonize low-income people as lazy mooches—in total defiance of reality. As of 2019, according to KFF, 63% of adult Medicaid recipients who weren’t elderly, on SSI, or dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare were working. Of those, 48% were working full-time. Caregiving responsibilities (12%), being in school (7%), and disability or illness (10%) were among the reasons people gave for not working. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found in 2018 that 79% of Medicaid recipients were in households where at least one person was working."
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