“Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republican efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young American men are wasting their lives “playing video games all day” instead of working.

Johnson’s remarks came as House Republicans pushed forward a budget framework that would help finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, with plans to slash federal spending by trillions. GOP leaders are eyeing $880 billion in reductions to Medicaid, a move critics warn could gut health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.

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    2 days ago

    Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you’d have more people working.

    Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.

    But it’s not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.