House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that able-bodied people who are able to work should not be using Medicaid but vowed that the health care program would not be cut. "You don't want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended,

“Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse. Everybody knows that, we all know it intuitively. No one in here would disagree,” Johnson said, claiming that experts say that the Medicaid program has $50 billion in fraud.