Oliver Attacks GOP For Wanting Medicaid Work Requirements

By Alex Christy

HBO’s John Oliver was in a bit of a difficult position for Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight. The previous week he suggested that President Trump was on the verge of putting the country into the middle of another Middle East disaster, but that prediction didn’t come true, so he did the best thing he could: hope everyone forgot that he said he would have more to say about that and instead attack the GOP for putting Medicaid work requirements in their Big Beautiful Bill.

After playing a clip of Trump saying the reconciliation bill wouldn’t affect Medicaid, Oliver claimed, “The math just doesn’t support those claims. As one analysis puts it: ‘Major Medicaid cuts are the only way to meet House budget resolution requirements.’ And the big way this bill tries to do that is by adding ‘work requirements’ for many low-income recipients who got coverage under Medicaid expansion—effectively removing a lot of them from the rolls.

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