The speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of La-La., On Sunday he defended the cuts to Medicaid in the budget, the Republicans of the House of Representatives approved last month for accusations that millions of Americans could lose their access to the program, saying that “4.8 million people will not lose their medicaid unless they choose to do it.”
Johnson told “Meet The Press” of NBC News that the bill imposes the “common sense” work requirements for some medicalid recipients and added that “it is not buying” the argument that the work requirements, which would require that the medicaid receptors with the body work, participate in job training programs or are volunteer for 80 hours a month, are also “centered.”
“You are telling me that you will require that young men, for example, only work or be volunteers in their community for 20 hours a week. And that is too cumbersome for them?” Johnson told the “Meet The Press” Kristen Welker. “I am not buying it. The American people are not buying it.”
The bill also adds new rules and documents for those medical recipients and increases eligibility checks and addresses.
Johnson argued that work requirements “should have been a long time ago.”
“People who complain that these people will lose their coverage because they cannot fulfill paperwork, this is a minor application of this policy and follows Johnson,” Johnson added.
Johnson's comments occur when Republicans have faced a rejection in the municipalities for the cuts to Medicaid in the package “One Big Beautiful Bill” that passed along the line lines in the camera last month.
The representatives Mike Flood, R-Neb., And Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, were booed when they mentioned their support for the package in events in their districts. Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, also faced a rejection after he defended the proposed cuts, telling the attendees of a town hall on Friday, that “we are all going to die.”
The measure has also faced criticism from some Senate Republicans. Last month, before the Chamber approved its bill, Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Mo., wrote in an opinion article of the New York Times that there is a “wing of the party [that] He wants Republicans to build our great and beautiful bill on the reduction of health insurance for poor workers. But that argument is morally incorrect and politically suicidal. “
Democrats and other opponents of the bill have taken advantage of a series of provisions that include hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to the supplementary nutritional assistance program and Medicaid, a federal program that provides medical care for low -income Americans.
The Democrats, including Senator Raphael Warnock, D-G., Who appeared in the program after Johnson, have argued that Medicaid recipients who receive a stumbling block for the reports of reports that are imposed together with the new work requirements will lead to the loss of coverage of medical care by millions.
“This is what this legislation does, which they are trying to do, they will throw poor people,” Warnock told Welker.
Warnock made reference to an exam that he carried out in his native state in Georgia, who said that “shows that this work reports, because we are talking about, no work requirements, the requirement of work reports is very good to get people out of their medical care.”
“It is not good to encourage work at all,” he added.
The bill is now addressed to the Senate, where Johnson said he was sure that the bill would leave the Congress and the desk of President Donald Trump before July 4.
“We are going to do this. The better better,” Johnson said on Sunday, and added later, “we are going to take him to the president's desk, and he will have a, we will all have a glorious celebration, on Independence Day, before July 4, when he firm it.”
