{"id":50495,"date":"2023-05-21T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50495"},"modified":"2023-05-21T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:22:44","slug":"where-are-the-fact-checkers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50495","title":{"rendered":"Where Are The Fact-Checkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Just the News<\/a> posted an article detailing some of the lies being told about raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s office is disputing reports on social media and websites that Republicans are demanding President Biden agree to work requirements on a litany of social services programs in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A headline on the website Raw Story declared, “McCarthy demands work requirements on \u2018all the programs\u2019 including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story was also\u00a0retweeted<\/a>\u00a0by a former Obama campaign official Jon Cooper.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Kevin McCarthy is demanding that WORK REQUIREMENTS be added to receive not only Medicaid but also Medicare and Social Security. He doesn\u2019t think Americans have earned their benefits \u2013 despite paying into all three programs over the course of their entire working lives,” Cooper wrote in another post Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, House Republicans’ push for work requirements as part of an agreement to raise the nation’s debt limit would apply only to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The plan proposed by McCarthy and other GOP leaders to enforce work-related requirements in these federal benefit programs would not apply to Social Security and Medicare, contrary to information spreading on social media, the speaker’s office confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article also notes that most Americans support work-requirements for some federal programs.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz argued that most Americans support work requirements as opposed to issuing benefits without any strings attached.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“An overwhelming majority of Americans support a work requirement for welfare,” Cruz said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also suggested that Biden doesn’t support such a requirement but once did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know someone [whom] President Joe Biden ought to listen to? That would be Senator Joe Biden who has previously voted for work requirements for welfare.\u00a0But now he’s handed the Democrat Party over to the crazy socialist wing of the party that doesn’t want anyone to work,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats point to analysis from liberal organizations such as The Center for American Progress<\/a>, which have concluded that work requirements would not work under programs like Medicaid.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most Americans are generous people who support charity. However, the government bureaucracy has grown so bloated that it is very easy for people to scam the welfare system. When social programs were handled locally, it was easy to tell who was gaming the system and who was not. Now there is a thought in the back of the basic bureaucrat’s mind that says, “If I get everyone off welfare, I will lose my job.” This is not a good business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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