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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geoff Mulvihill and David A. Lieb

Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill

Medicaid SNAP States - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed Thursday by the House of Representatives becomes law.

It would require many low-income adults to work to receive Medicaid health insurance coverage and more to work to get food assistance, require hospitals to verify the citizenship status of patients, and cut funding for services like birth control to the nation's biggest abortion provider.

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