An anonymous Trump minion tells Rolling Stone that “Going after fraud in Medicaid is politically popular and worth doing, but going after benefits is an attack on our own voters,” adding that while it’s “defensible policy-wise, it’s the height of stupidity from a political perspective.”
And that’s all they had from an insider, described in the story as “a longtime Trumpworld adviser,” to an article otherwise padded out to be hundreds of words long about the politics of these bullshit work requirements that are just going to add hurdles to legitimate recipients. Probably why it won’t kick in until after the midterms, according to the latest revisions in the bill.