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The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that the Trump administration's approval of #Medicaid work requirements in #Arkansas was "arbitrary and capricious."

Read the ruling: splcenter.org/sites/default/…
“The court confirmed that this administration’s effort to ‘explode’ #Medicaid by converting it from a health care access program to a work program is arbitrary and illegal." - SPLC's Sam Brooke
"We hope the federal government and the states will return to focusing on expanding coverage and access, so that everyone—regardless of economic status—can be healthy.” - SPLC's Sam Brooke #Medicaid
Read more about the unanimous ruling in our case challenging #Medicaid work requirements in #Arkansas: washingtonpost.com/health/appeals…
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We've reported that #StephenMiller's bigoted views on immigration have informed some of the #Trump administration's most inhumane policies.

Now, @KamalaHarris, @JoaquinCastrotx and other lawmakers are calling for his removal.
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Voter suppression and election mismanagement are alive and well in #Alabama. Check out our new report released today detailing how Alabama laws and policies create and perpetuate obstacles to the ballot box.

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Our tax dollars should be invested in education, housing, prison alternatives and health care programs that provide opportunity and increased well-being for all - not in the Trump administration's anti-immigrant and racist policies. #DefundHate #SOTU
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MaryBeth Musumeci
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An appeals court has unanimously struck down #Arkansas’ Medicaid work requirements, ruling that the Trump administration’s approval was counter to #Medicaid’s statutory objective of providing affordable health coverage.
While today’s decision striking down #AR’s waiver doesn’t directly invalidate #Medicaid work requirement approvals in other states, it does signal that similar approvals are likely to be successfully challenged in litigation.
Today’s decision about the scope of the Secretary’s waiver authority also will be important in looking ahead to any potential challenges to CMS’s recent guidance inviting states to apply for #Medicaid block grant waivers.
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Alice Wong
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Ditto, @AnnaKrukCorbin

This administration's actions are not honorable. #Medicaid work requirements for example are going to cause death & undue hardship for thousands of people. They're not going to stop.

Thousands will lose coverage: commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/indi…

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On Kentucky & Arkansas:

"...a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit repeatedly said senior Trump health officials had neglected to consider that people would lose health insurance under the new rules."

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A study of what happened to Arkansas in year-one of requirements:

"The first major study on the nation’s first Medicaid work requirements finds that people fell off of the Medicaid rolls but didn’t seem to find more work."

vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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1) Contre l'avis du Pentagone et de ses services de renseignement, #Trump a pactisé avec #Erdogan et abandonne les forces démocratiques kurdes qui ont combattu l'EI pour les #EtatsUnis au nord-est de la #Syrie à 1 prochaine offensive de la #Turquie... nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/…
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Dan Diamond
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The Trump administration wants to nationalize Medicaid work requirements — but a federal judge just struck them down in Arkansas and Kentucky. This is big and @rachanadixit has the story. politico.com/story/2019/03/…
The Trump administration had been struggling to defend its Medicaid work requirement policy. HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s claims to the Senate befuddled his own Medicaid staff.
Here’s Azar under pressure in Congress last week, as @RepKennedy pushed him to explain Trump’s work requirement plan.
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