Believe it or not, this has become a political issue where conservative media is trying to spin this as people being too lazy to work, or welfare being too good. This is being called "the war on work" by conservative media [0]. The goal is to get popular support to weaken an already laughable welfare situation in the US so that workers have no choice but to go to work at terrible wages/benefits/conditions. This is a shared goal of conservatives and business owners.

This also further divides people because of the consistent use of the "Welfare Queen" [1] stereotype by conservatives to vilify people on welfare.

0 - https://reason.com/2021/06/01/the-bipartisan-war-on-work/

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#In_political_dis...