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president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren't fair, and they don't work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we've got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, ...

happy saturday. >> happy saturday. >> everybody. welcome to morning joe weekend, it was another busy week. >> crazy week. >> well, this week, on monday it felt like it should've been friday. there was a major shake up. >> it felt like it should've been thursday. >> on fox news, president biden officially launching his reelection campaign. we'll get into all of that, plus some of the week's other top stories, take a look. the new york times has new reporting on fox's firing of tucker carlson. two sources tell the times a day before the start of the dominion defamation trial against th...

>> work requirements are what they sound like. for various social programs there's requirements that able-bodied recipients make some kind of effort to find work or put in a certain number of hours or go through job training. the context matters a lot in which program we're talking about. the three areas republicans have talked about attaching work requirements to are medicare, s.n.a.p., commonly known as food stamps and temporarily assistance for needy families, tanf, what used to be referred to as welfare, in the debates of the '90s. biden has said medicaid is off the table. that's generally...