The Washington Post
By: Paige Winfield Cunningham
A federal judge has thrown a wrench in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose work requirements on low-income people on Medicaid, blocking the work programs in Kentucky and Arkansas.
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In statement, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called the ruling a “victory for working families that were being crushed by mountains of burdensome and unnecessary paperwork designed to take away their health care.” “There will be more work in the days ahead to ensure this ruling stands, but now it is clear that this cruel scheme is on the wrong side of the law,” he added.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families
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