By Jill Nolin | Editor
A state agency is in the process of deciding who will be subject to Medicaid work requirements moving forward as Georgia’s partial expansion program undergoes changes to comply with the federal GOP tax and spending bill that passed last year.
The Georgia Department of Community Health has proposed a list of medical conditions that would automatically give low-income Georgians a pass on having to satisfy work requirements. But advocates in Georgia said they were surprised to see HIV left off the list after the feds specifically named it as a condition states might consider as “medically frail.”
State officials did not include HIV to a list of conditions that exempts low-income Georgians from work requirements for Medicaid coverage. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder
HEALTH
By Alander Rocha
Low-income Georgians living with HIV would not be counted as “medically frail” under a state proposal still under consideration and would therefore have to satisfy work requirements to qualify for Medicaid coverage.
As of now, state officials plan to exclude HIV from a list of medical conditions that would exempt Georgians from Medicaid work requirements, and that omission has been met with concerns from Georgia health advocates.
The new proposed state policy is aimed at aligning Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage, a partial Medicaid-expansion with work requirement components, with new federal changes to Medicaid eligibility that were included in President Donald Trump’s tax break and spending cuts package that passed last year.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., look on after a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on June 24, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
DC BUREAU
By Jennifer Shutt
President Donald Trump on Monday called on the U.S. Senate to cancel its five-week August break, keeping lawmakers in session to advance several of his priorities, despite not having the votes.
Trump wrote in a social media post that he wanted Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to keep the chamber open, preventing vulnerable Republicans facing reelection from the campaign trail, to pass a voter identification bill, among other measures.
A mail ballot drop box is seen at a polling station on Nov. 4, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
VOTING
By Jacob Fischler
The Trump administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a district court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s broad March 31 executive order restricting vote-by-mail.
The move came just two days after a federal appeals court denied the administration’s request to resume the controversial plan, which would force significant limits and voter information collection requirements on states in regard to vote-by-mail.
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