National Memo - Americans fear that they will lose their Medicaid coverage thanks to the massive cuts Republicans made to the program when passing President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill." Luckily, the Trump administration came up with a new and novel way for people to earn their health insurance coverage back.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that Americans can work the fields to replace the thousands of immigrant farmworkers the Trump administration is deporting—leaving farms desperate for labor.
"We move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which again with 34 million people, able-bodied on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly," Rollins said Tuesday at a news conference at the Department of Agriculture.
Of course, millions of people who will lose their Medicaid coverage are working, and thus don't need jobs in fields picking crops. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 92% of Medicaid recipients work. The other 8% are either “retired, unable to find work, or were not working for another reason,” KFF said. Hard to see how retirees could do the hard labor of harvesting crops in hot fields.
What's more, there are not enough jobless Americans to fill the thousands of back-breaking jobs farmers are losing thanks to Trump's cruel immigration raids.
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