"Work requirements" have never *ever* cost less than just giving help to people who ask for it.
The once-upon-a-time "party of small government" knows how much rules -- and their resulting validations -- actually cost.
They don't care. This isn't about the budget, it's about pursuing class war, and implicitly, white supremacy, while cloaking their creepy broken morality in robes they think make it more palatable.