President Joe Biden has signaled that he might accept work requirement expansions as part of the compromise with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling, so long as they don’t affect health care programs.
“I’m not going to accept any work requirements that’s going to impact on medical health needs of people,” Biden told reporters on Wednesday at the White House before departing to Japan for the G7 summit. He also admitted that he did support some reforms that instituted work requirements for aid programs as a Delaware Senator in the 1990s.
“I’m not going to accept any work requirements that go much beyond what is already—I voted years ago for the work requirements that exist, but it’s possible there could be a few others, but not anything of any consequence,” he said….