The Trump administration will support Medicaid work requirements despite such rules resulting in more than 12,000 people being knocked out of the program in Arkansas, a top health official said Tuesday.

“We remain steadfast in our belief that this policy is important for the program,” Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicaid Services, said in breakfast meeting with reporters Tuesday.

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