"Republicans warn that Medicaid spending has ballooned in the wake of the Affordable Care Act's expansion, saying that the program's structure puts outsize pressure on the federal budget. While states administer the program, the federal government provides matching payments that heavily subsidize it.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told reporters Wednesday that a "responsible and reasonable work requirement" for Medicaid benefits resembling the one that already exists for food stamps could yield about $100 billion in savings. He also said another $160 billion in reduced costs could come from checking Medicaid eligibility more than once per year."

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Sorta like when FL scare-talked the 'drug addicts' on welfare in FL and lost millions to find out less than 3 percent tested positive.

This is why tax cuts for billionaires is such a bad idea... it's the poor that Trumpers will make pay for those cuts... well, the poor and everyone else, too.