GOP's Fiscal Plan Includes Medicaid Work Requirements and Rescinding Unspent Covid Money.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plan for raising the debt ceiling includes Medicaid work requirements, which would require recipients to work 80 hours per month, with exceptions for certain groups. Republicans argue that work requirements encourage people to get jobs to lift themselves out of poverty, but a study found no increase in employment and 18,000 people lost coverage before a judge halted the program. Democrats strongly oppose Medicaid work requirements and many other non-health care parts of this bill.