Democrats have slammed the GOP’s so-called “big beautiful bill” that uses a process called reconciliation to unlock President Donald Trump’s agenda. They’ve honed in on proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP funding and reforms to add work requirements to receive such benefits.
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“I think a big thing is actually spelling out what they mean and what they are, because these aren’t work requirements,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the Washington Examiner while walking into the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing markup on the bill Tuesday.
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“These are paperwork requirements that are designed specifically to kick off people who they know are eligible to try to claim that they aren’t,” she continued.
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