Kevin McCarthy wants you to get a job

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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With the debt ceiling deadline approaching, Republicans want to expand rules that require welfare recipients to work. Vox’s Dylan Scott and Marketplace’s Krissy Clark explain. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The recurring fight over whether to raise the debt ceiling is a uniquely American phenomenon.
0:06.8	We've talked about this on the show before.
0:08.5	Yeah, my first debt ceiling fight was 2011 and I was an intern in still in college.
0:14.3	And so I've been doing this my entire professional life and it seems like it will never end.
0:18.8	Recently, a top capital hill, another uniquely American phenomenon unfolded.
0:23.5	House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed as part of the negotiations over the debt ceiling,
0:28.2	work requirements for Americans getting government assistance in the form of welfare programs
0:33.0	and even Medicaid.
0:34.2	It is such a good campaign issue and it makes people's blood boil.
0:38.9	I think for all of the reasons that we were just talking about because it appeals to all these things we want to believe about America.
0:46.1	McCarthy has pointed out that Americans voting for other Americans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps is nothing new.
0:52.6	This is something that President Biden and Senator voted for.
0:55.8	He did.
0:56.6	This is something that President Bill Clinton signed.
0:59.5	He did.
1:00.1	Welfare reform, class of 96, decades ago.
1:03.2	America decided if you want help, you need to work.
1:06.7	House have been working out for us coming up on today's spined.
1:16.6	Support for the show today comes from BetterHelp.
1:18.2	How much time do you spend on yourself?
1:20.2	It can be so easy to get so caught up in the needs of so many others
1:24.6	and ignore the challenges of your own life therapy can give you the tools to find more balance in your life so you can keep supporting others.
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