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Republicans praise ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ work requirement for Medicaid: ‘We’ve got to get back to work’
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While Democrats predict major problems with a provision within the «one big, beautiful bill» that adds a work requirement for adults to be eligible for Medicaid, Republican senators are praising the requirement, saying, «We’ve got to get back to work.»
The provision requires able-bodied, childless adults between the ages of 18 and 64 to work at least 80 hours a month to be eligible to receive Medicaid benefits. Individuals can also meet the requirement by participating in community service, going to school or engaging in a work program.
«We have folks back home right now harvesting wheat that are working 20 hours in a day,» Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital. «We want you to go to college, we want to volunteer, work 20 hours a week, it brings dignity, it brings purpose to your lives. Work is a great thing; it’s nothing to be ashamed of.»
«Seven million healthy American men out there of working age are not working right now,» Marshall continued. «We happen to have seven million open jobs as well. I think I want to do everything I can to help those seven million men find a job. Whether that’s through an education or community colleges, technical colleges, I think there’s lots of opportunity out there.»
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From left to right, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images | Drew Angerer/Getty Images | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said «the disincentives to work are a real problem here in America.»
«It’s amazing that Democrats are trying to make this argument,» he said. «I don’t think that taxpayers should be footing the bill at all for able-bodied citizens. And certainly, non-citizens should not be getting the benefit of this.»
«We need to incentivize work,» Hagerty went on. «And certainly, you don’t want to be incentivizing a burden on taxpayers.»
«We’ve got to take care of the people that need to be taken care of and it’s just unfortunate you’ve got a lot of freeloaders in this country,» said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, speaks to members of the media outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Tuberville claimed that many of those he deemed as freeloaders «are coming from the younger ranks because they’ve grown up, they’ve got all these student loans, they got a degree that’s not worth anything, they can’t get a job or they don’t want to work and so the way they’ve done they’ve turned into socialists, they started living off the government.»
«We can’t have that. We’ve got to get back to work. This country is built on hard work,» he said.
Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said he also agrees with the work requirement, telling Fox News Digital that «quite honestly, what we’re trying to do is stop enrollment in that Obamacare addition to Medicaid.»
«They call it Medicaid expansion, but it’s Obamcare. It was Democrats’ way of trying to turn us into a single-payer system. And so, it incentivized the states to sign up single able-bodied individuals,» he claimed.
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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to reporters on Feb. 12, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«As a result,» he went on. «We’ve created all kinds of [what] I would call legalized fraud on the part of states … Now that they’ve designed their budgets around that scam, now they’re screaming when we’re trying to end the scam.»
Additionally, while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., expressed that «of course, we should always eliminate any kind of fraud and that kind of a waste,» other Democrats were much less enthusiastic about the work requirement.
«That provision is not designed for efficiency or to save people money that provision is designed to kick people off of Medicaid, like don’t believe the hype,» said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
Murphy claimed that Republicans «have built a work requirement that they know people won’t be able to satisfy because they hate the idea that Medicaid actually helps the working poor in this country.»
«So, there’s going to be a whole bunch of people who work for a living who are not going to be able to comply with those provisions and are going to lose their healthcare, even though they’re working,» he said. «That’s the intent of the provision and everybody should just be honest about that.»
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Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., indicated that the provision will «kick 17 million people off of health insurance.» (Eric Lee/Bloomberg)
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., indicated that the provision will «kick 17 million people off of health insurance.»
«These are life and death situations that people are making,» he said, adding, «This legislation is going to kick 300,000 of my constituents off of their health care coverage.»
«These are people that I’ve spoken to that can’t afford it,» he continued. «They have no money in their budget to go and buy health care. So, then they got to make a decision between eating and their rent, or they just don’t go to the doctor.»
James Agresti, president of Just Facts, a public policy research institute, told Fox News Digital that despite Democrats’ claims about the work requirements, he believes reality tells a different story.
«The notion that able-bodied adults without young children cannot work, get an education, or volunteer for 20 hours a week is absurd,» he said.
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U.S. Capitol Building at sunset on Jan. 30, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
«Murphy’s rhetoric is refuted by decades of experience with other welfare programs that have work requirements, like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,» he explained.
Agresti said that according to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 1.4 million noncitizens and 9.2 million able-bodied adults who won’t work or are engaged in fraud will be removed from Medicaid eligibility.
A spokesperson for Kelly’s office told Fox News Digital that «a bunch of actual experts and media outlets correctly interpreting that same CBO report» estimate that 11.8 million people will be without health insurance by 2034 because of the provision, plus an additional 5.1 million because of the bill ending expanded Affordable Care Act credits.
In response, Agresti said the bill «doesn’t revoke the expanded Obamacare subsidies, which were a temporary COVID-era handout that Democrats enacted in the American Rescue Plan and extended in the Inflation Reduction Act.»
«Even the New York Times has reported that adding these numbers into the tally for the big, beautiful bill ‘is an exaggeration’ and not ‘the real number,’» said Agresti.
He also said that numerous studies have proven that the disincentive to work is a real problem in America.
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Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives during a vote-a-rama at the U.S. Capitol on July 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
«Even Lawrence Summers, Obama’s chief economist and Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, has written that ‘government assistance programs’ provide ‘an incentive, and the means, not to work,’» he said.
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Journalist who refused to duck during Trump assassination attempt reflects on Butler rally in new book
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Salena Zito, a veteran political reporter with more than 20 years of storytelling experience, is telling her own story in her book, «Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.»
Zito’s novel, released Tuesday, takes readers back to July 13, 2024, when a young shooter unleashed gunfire into the crowd at President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
«I didn’t get down,» Zito told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview ahead of the release. «There was this inner voice that told me, ‘You have a job to do, continue doing it.’»
When 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks began firing toward Trump, Zito found herself in the Secret Service’s secure perimeter, right by the stage where Trump was delivering his remarks.
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President Donald Trump defiantly raises his fist after an attempted assassin’s bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
«Time has these layers that happen,» Zito said. «It’s not remembering them. It’s experiencing them. It’s this interesting thing that happens. I see a sea of navy blue suits immediately surround him. Then, I hear the second four shots. I still didn’t get down.»
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As a gun owner, Zito recognized the sound of the gunshots right away. But as a journalist, she quickly began to commit the historic moment to memory as it was unfolding.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Zito described the scene she saw first-hand, that was caught on video by the network pool camera and watched across the world.
Just over eight minutes into Trump’s speech, Zito was standing in the «buffer» with her daughter, her son-in-law and a Trump campaign aide, Michel Picard. It was Picard who finally brought Zito to the ground.
«Michel Picard takes me down and lies on top of me and covers me,» Zito explained. «This young man didn’t have to do this. He will always be a hero in my heart. He lies on the top of my daughter. My son-in-law has already taken my daughter down.»
A shoe is left on stage after then-former President Donald Trump was assisted offstage during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. on Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Zito said, even from that vantage point, she could still see and hear the situation unfolding as Trump shouted out for his shoes, someone called out for a medic and a woman screamed.
«I had my recorder on my phone because I thought I was going to be recording the rally, his speech. I wanted to make sure I got the nuance. I always do that. I could see, and I could hear everything that was happening.»
She said Trump was saying, «USA,» from the ground as the crowd began to chant. When the Secret Service helped Trump onto his feet, he shouted, «Fight! Fight! Fight,» Zito said she saw a different side of Trump, which is revealed in her book.
The journalist, who is a political reporter for the Washington Examiner, is a special contributor for the Washington Post and has been a columnist for the New York Post, said Trump must have called her seven times in the 24 hours after the shooting.
Members of the crowd duck under chairs after then-former President Donald Trump was assisted offstage during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. on Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Zito was slated to interview Trump ahead of his rally in Butler, but such is the case with presidential campaign schedules, the interview time kept slipping. Zito was planning to fly with Trump to Bedminster, N.J., to interview him after the rally.
Trump recovered from his near assassination with little more than a bullet graze to the ear, thanks to the immigration chart he was turning his head to face. One rally attendee, firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed, and two others were critically injured by Crooks’ gunshots.
Comperatore shielded his wife and daughters from the shots, saving his family. Trump honored their family when he returned to Butler to finish the rally later that year.
«This book is for everyone,» Zito told Fox News Digital. «First of all, it was a witness to history. And it’s told in a way that is very conversational and told in way that’s very real and authentic. I tell the story exactly the way that it happened.»
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«But it’s also a book about understanding why place and rootedness [are] so important in American politics. There have been very few Republicans or Democrats that have understood that. It is part of America’s experience, no matter what happens next, that there’s a light shining on it, so that you understand people better.»
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Mamonas Assassinas, la banda que revolucionó Brasil en solo 9 meses y fue marcada por la tragedia
Mamonas Assassinas conquistó rápidamente la escena musical brasileña con una propuesta basada en el humor irreverente y un estilo osado. Considerados un fenómeno del rock alternativo, su trayectoria fue breve pero intensa. Conformaron la banda en 1995 y consiguieron un impresionante éxito nacional con su único álbum, que superó los 3 millones de copias vendidas.
Sin embargo, la historia del grupo llegó a un abrupto final a los nueve meses de su creación, cuando un accidente aéreo se llevó la vida de todos sus integrantes en 1996. Pese al trágico desenlace, permanecen en la memoria colectiva como un referente insustituible de la música brasileña de los noventa.
La historia de la banda comenzó en 1990, cuando cinco jóvenes se unieron para ejecutar una de sus pasiones: la música, que combinaron con humor. Así fue como Dihno (vocalista), Bento Hinoto (guitarrista), Samuel Reoli (bajista), Júlio Rasec (tecladista) y Sérgio Reoli (baterista) conformaron Mamonas Assassinas.
El grupo se caracterizaba por fusionar géneros como el rock, pop, funk y música brasileña. Los jóvenes crearon un sonido único y pegadizo, pero, más allá de estas características, sus letras sarcásticas y su energía los hicieron destacar.
En 1995, lanzaron su primer álbum de estudio, titulado Mamonas Assassinas. El disco se consolidó con gran éxito en Brasil. Canciones como “Vira-Vira”, “Pelados em Santos” y “Robocop Gay” se posicionaron con fuerza en radios y programas televisivos.
Según consignó la revista Rolling Stone, en Argentina, Mamonas Assassinas fue un grupo de culto. Sus canciones, coreografías y humor habían atravesado la frontera y llegado a países vecinos, donde comenzaban a corear sus melodías.
La carrera de la banda fue breve. En marzo de 1996, a tan solo nueve meses de su lanzamiento en el mundo de la música, los jóvenes abordaron un avión privado con destino a Guarulhos, destino al que nunca llegarían. De acuerdo con CNN Brasil, durante el vuelo, la aeronave se estrelló en la Serra da Cantareira y murieron todos los pasajeros.
Horas antes del accidente que acabó con la vida de los miembros de Mamonas Assassinas, uno de ellos dejó registrada una escalofriante premonición. Según reveló la revista Veja, Júlio Rasec, conocido por el tono rojizo-anaranjado de su cabello y su papel como tecladista del grupo, acudió a la peluquería dirigida por su amigo Nelson de Lima antes del siniestro.
En ese encuentro, quedó grabado un video donde Rasec mencionó la posibilidad de una tragedia inminente. Lima le preguntó sobre el viaje del grupo, en el que darían una serie de conciertos, y el artista respondió: “No sé, anoche soñé con algo… Parecía que el avión se iba a estrellar. No sé. No sé qué significa eso”. El registro se convirtió en parte del legado que acompaña el mito de la banda.
Los informes iniciales revelaron que hubo una maniobra equivocada por parte del piloto, Jorge Germano Martins. No obstante, el avance de la investigación identificó otros factores, como las condiciones climáticas y la fatiga de la tripulación.
Según el informe final, el piloto habría estado agotado. Martins había superado el límite máximo de horas de vuelo permitidas. En total, voló durante 16 horas y 30 minutos, cuando el máximo autorizado era de 11 horas.
A más de 30 años del trágico suceso, el legado de la banda continúa. Según datos recogidos por CNN, en Spotify, las canciones tienen más de 50 millones de reproducciones. Además, más del 66% de los usuarios de la plataforma escucha a la banda. Las tres ciudades que más reproducen su música son São Paulo, Belo Horizonte y Río de Janeiro.
El 28 de junio de 2024, la plataforma Max lanzó la biopic de la banda, titulada Nada es imposible. La película, protagonizada por Ruy Brissac, Rhener Freitas, Adriano Tunes, Robson Lima, Beto Hinoto, Fefe Shneider y Guta Ruiz, entre otros, sigue el viaje de los músicos de Guarulhos, su ciudad de origen, hasta alcanzar un éxito que sigue vigente.
El filme fue dirigido por Edson Spinello, producido por Total Entertainment, coproducido por Mamonas Produções y Claro, y distribuido por Imagem Filmes.
A más de tres décadas de su desaparición, la figura de Mamonas Assassinas aún genera interés en nuevas producciones, investigaciones y testimonios que reconstruyen su historia desde distintos ángulos. Su corta existencia inspira relatos y homenajes que amplían el entendimiento de su lugar en la cultura brasileña y el modo en que conectaron, en tan poco tiempo, con una audiencia masiva y diversa.
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