Trump administration officials are championing Republican proposals to put new work requirements and other restrictions on mainstay social welfare programs like Medicaid, despite fierce protests from disability advocates and criticism from prominent Democrats.
In an op-ed published Wednesday in The New York Times, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Mehmet Oz, Brooke Rollins, and Scott Turner — the heads of Health and Human Services, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, respectively — wrote that while welfare programs were “created with a noble purpose,” they are now “breaking under the weight of misplaced priorities.”
