(Rick Bowmer/AP)The big news Thursday morning — besides President Trump undercutting his own White House on FISA — was that his administration is moving to allow states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. And as The Washington Post's Amy Goldstein reports, it's a legally controversial decision because it would impose such requirements for the first time in Medicaid's half-century history. Politically speaking, though, this is among the least controversial things Trump has done as president. For decades, Americans have overwhelmingly supported work requirements for government assistance. A poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation in June showed that fully 70 percent of Americans favored allowing states to impose work requirements on non-disabled adults receiving Medicaid, which is basically what the Trump administration is doing.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2018 16:39 UTC