Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, who President Trump’s sponsor “a major and beautiful bill“Through Congress, he said on Sunday that Medicaid’s action requirements – which can affect his original condition in Louisiana – have a” moral component “for them because people in Medicaid” refuse “work are” defrauding the system. ”
“If you are able to work and refuse to do this, you are defrauding the system,” “Facing the nation with Margaret Brennan. “You cheat the system. No one in the country thinks this is true. So there is a moral element of what we do. And when you make young people work, this is good for them, this is a good thing for their dignity, this is a good thing for their own value, and it is good for the society in which they live. “
The home -controlled house The huge bill passedWhich determines the priorities of Mr. Trump’s agenda for the upcoming budgets, by Only one vote In the early hours on Thursday after a session all night. The draft law is now heading to the Senate, where many Republicans have already expressed their concerns, including Sens. Josh Hawley and Rand Paul.
The draft law faced an intense discussion in two committees last week, as the Republican Alliance in the Blue Country and Financial Falcons rejected the joking. Looking at the kind majority of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, Mr. Trump went to the hill on Tuesday to gather the objector at the Republican Party conference.
To pay the price of some tax repairs to Mr. Trump, such as extending tax cuts for 2017 and eliminating taxes on advice, there are discounts in many programs. Republicans have insisted that they do not cut Medicaid, and the cuts in the low -income entitlement program have become one of the most preoccupied parts of the bill. In a closed session on Tuesday with members of the Republican Conference, Sources in the Chamber told the CBS News network, Mr. Trump, who said: “Do not revolve around Medikid.”
To save money on Medicaid, the final version of the bill puts the requirements of work on Medicaid, which Johnson insisted on the expense of the largest part of any cost reduction. Before Non -profit health care KFF I found that 190,000 people in Louisiana, Mother Johnson State, would lose Medicaid under new requirements.
Johnson insisted on Sunday that “we did not cut the medicaid program, and did not cut the Food Stam.
Johnson said: “What we do … works to fraud, waste and abuse, and everyone in Louisiana and around the country realize that this is the responsibility of Congress,” Johnson said.
He said that there are 4.8 million Americans in the Medicaid program “bodily and young workers, for example, who do not work, and those who benefit from the system.” He added: “He described it as a” moral component “to put the Americans at work,” when you make young people work, it is a good thing for them, it is a good thing for their dignity, it is a good thing for their own value, and it is good for the society in which they live. ”
Johnson also claimed that some of the Medicaid and Snap are illegal immigrants, although they are not qualified to receive food or medicaid stamps.
When director Margaret Brennan responded to Johnson to explain that his position is that an estimated 190,000 Louisian standing will lose the coverage of medical aid are “lazy, do not work? They were not documented? What about them? How do you defend that they will lose their benefits?”
Johnson said: “No. what we are talking about, again, is workers who are able to the body, and many of them refuse to work because they play the system,” Johnson said. “And when we make them work, it will be better for everyone, a great victory for everyone.”
Johnson said the requirements of Medicaid’s work “is not an exhausting and burden thing,” saying that they are asking the recipients to work at least 20 hours a week – either they are in work training programs or volunteering in society.
Johnson said: “When the American people understand what we are doing here, they applaud it,” Johnson said. “This is very common, because we have to maintain programs. What we do is enhance Medicaid and Snap so that they can exist, so that they are there for the people who need them desperately, and it should agree on it more than that.
However, while the bill is heading to the Senate for discussion, the Republican Party “Holie” described it as “morally wrong and politically suicide” to reduce Medicine, which indicates opposition to its birth in that room.
Hawly took in particular a cost exchange with Medicaid between federal governments and state governments, which he said would force those in or more federal poverty to pay up to $ 35 for a medical visit. Johnson retreated to this claim, saying that the house included in the draft law is “a modest component of the state’s exchange, so that they can be aware of this, so that we can reduce fraud.”
But as Brennan noted, the draft law still must pass the Senate, and if the members of the Senate make up the expected changes on the bill, he will have to return to the House of Representatives. Johnson said he had lunch with his Republican counterparts in the upper room on Tuesday, and he said he reminded them of being a team.
Johnson said: “It is the Senate and Republicans in the House of Representatives that will present this ball on the goal line, so to speak,” Johnson said. “I encouraged them to make a few adjustments as much as possible, remembering that I have a very sensitive balance on the very diverse Republican Assembly in the House of Representatives.”
