Steve Scalise said this week that Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied, working-age adults are being considered for inclusion in the reconciliation bill that would extend the Trump tax cuts.  In 2023 House Republicans backed off work requirements on Medicaid, housing subsidies, and food stamps in the debt ceiling deal. The Left hates work rules in exchange for benefits.

Polls and ballot questions have repeatedly shown that more than two-thirds of voters (including most liberal voters) agree that people who are capable of working should be required to work or participate in job training as a condition of receiving welfare benefits.

In April 2023 in Wisconsin, 79% of voters supported work requirements in a ballot referendum the same day they were electing a Democrat to the state Supreme Court.

But liberals in Congress have already started their usual distortion campaign:

Conservatives should not be scared off, but should calmly explain that work requirements benefit the people on welfare programs by incentivizing them to get into the workforce and onto the ladder of economic opportunity that will lead to higher income and get them off Medicaid and other welfare programs. The Left’s distortion about children and seniors shows that they have no real defense of not requiring work or job training for prime-age, non-disabled adults without dependents.

Work requirements work and if liberals doubt that, they should ask Bill Clinton who with a Republican Congress enacted them in 2016 thus reducing welfare dependency by almost half.