The White House is backing changes to Medicaid in the “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill that would require many beneficiaries to work to get health care coverage.
The policy change, which would cause millions of people to lose Medicaid coverage according to some estimates, has been a sticking point as Republicans negotiate the massive policy bill and attempt to find ways to pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called work requirements common-sense provisions.