Adding work requirements to social safety net programs continues to be a key sticking point in negotiations.
Earlier Friday, Rep. Garret Graves, Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s emissary in the negotiations, said Republicans need work requirements in a deal. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesThe White House pushed back aggressively late Friday on the GOP effort to add new work requirements to social safety net programs as part of the debt deal, signaling a deepening divide between the two camps on the issue even as outlines of other parts of a potential spending agreement emerged.
Bates criticized Republicans for pushing new work requirements for deficit reduction while trying to permanently extend the Trump tax cuts, which“President Biden and House Democrats are standing against this cruel and senseless tradeoff,” Bates added.
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