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Mike Johnson: “Work requirements for Medicaid...is public opinion polls…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins The Source With Kaitlan Collins

Published | Video Starts at 04:01

That is not part of this equation. Okay. We're talking about finding efficiencies in every program but not cutting benefits for people who rightly deserve that. You know, working requirements, Work requirements for Medicaid...is public opinion polls, almost 90%. You don't want able bodied workers on a program that is intended, for example for single mothers with two small children who's just trying to make it. That's what Medicaid is for. (04:01–04:07)

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Asserts that nearly 90% of public opinion supports work requirements for Medicaid.

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