States try to revive Medicaid work requirements, worrying some low-income Americans

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at a campaign rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, in Nov., 2024. In January, Sanders announced plans to reprise an effort to institute work requirements for Medicaid, as Arkansas did under the first Trump administration.

13 states got the greenlight to add work requirements during the first Trump Administration, but courts halted those plans. Now that Trump is back in the White House, some states are trying again.

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