{"id":10794,"date":"2025-06-30T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-dont-pay-people-in-this-country-to-be-lazy-mullin-says-of-medicaid-work-requirements-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:21:06","slug":"we-dont-pay-people-in-this-country-to-be-lazy-mullin-says-of-medicaid-work-requirements-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-dont-pay-people-in-this-country-to-be-lazy-mullin-says-of-medicaid-work-requirements-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We don&#8217;t pay people in this country to be lazy,&#8217; Mullin says of Medicaid work requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin is insisting President Donald Trump&#8217;s sweeping domestic megabill doesn&#8217;t break his promise not to cut Medicaid, even as the Congressional Budget Office estimates 7.8 million people would lose access if it passes. Instead, Mullin (R-Okla.) told NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker on Sunday, the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; is eliminating fraud&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/29\/congress\/markwayne-mullin-medicaid-cuts-00431732\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin is insisting President Donald Trump&#8217;s sweeping domestic megabill doesn&#8217;t break his promise not to cut Medicaid, even as the Congressional Budget Office estimates 7.8 million people would lose access if it passes. Instead, Mullin (R-Okla.) told NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker on Sunday, the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; is eliminating fraud&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}