“Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republican efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young American men are wasting their lives “playing video games all day” instead of working.
Johnson’s remarks came as House Republicans pushed forward a budget framework that would help finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, with plans to slash federal spending by trillions. GOP leaders are eyeing $880 billion in reductions to Medicaid, a move critics warn could gut health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.
The labor force participation rate for men ages 25-54 is approximately 90%.
Who the hell is he talking about? We’re all working already
https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Children. That’s why they’re eroding child labor laws.
They call 13 year old girls “young women,” so it stands to reason that they’re talking about getting teenage boys into the workforce for minimum wage here, yeah.
I believe you mistyped “military-aged males”
He wants you to work more for less pay to make more money for the people he actually represents.
Just classic republican nonsense. removeding about things that don’t exist. But they blast it all over, so people believe it.