Despite claims that work requirements would encourage employment, the reality is that most Medicaid recipients already work. According to recent data, 92% of Medicaid adults and 90% of Medi-Cal adults under 65 are employed, in school, or caring for others or living with disabilities that prevent full-time work.

Other local nonprofits intend to fight. They have slammed Trump’s policies. They declined suggestions to alter their mission statements. They have gone to court. And one, giant St. John’s Community Health— which has provided care to the region’s working class and immigrants for 60 years — is launching a campaign to call out congressional Republicans it believes are enabling Trump budget cuts that they believe will cripple healthcare for the poor.