FACT: Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals

Whitehouse.gov ^ | October 1, 2025 | The Whitehouse

[SoConPubbie]

Democrats and their Fake News allies want you to believe it’s all a lie that Democrats shut down the government over free healthcare for illegal aliens.

Except that’s exactly what happened. As Vice President JD Vance said, “It’s not something that we made up. It’s not a talking point. It is in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government.”

As the White House makes clear in a new memo, Democrats’ unserious proposal takes extraordinary efforts to accommodate illegal aliens while repealing reforms that strengthen healthcare for American citizens.

Here’s what you need to know:

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would result in nearly $200 billion spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens over the next decade — enough to fund the entire Children’s Health Insurance Program.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would once again allow those improperly granted asylum and parole under Biden’s open borders scheme to receive Medicaid.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would require Medicaid to pay more for emergency care provided to illegal aliens than it does for American patients who are disabled, elderly, or children.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would allow California to continue exploiting a loophole to fund Medicaid for illegal aliens.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would reinstate a special Obamacare subsidy for non-citizens — for which low-income American citizens are not eligible.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would repeal a generational $50 billion investment in rural healthcare.

• FACT: Democrats’ proposal would take Health Savings Accounts away from ten million American citizens.

Click here to read the full memo.

[griswold3]

That’s just medical care. Figure in just the SSI benefits for asylum granted Humanitarian parolees at about $2100/mo. Enjoy the decline.

[bert]

and resumption of funding for PBS and NPR.

and....... everything else killed by DOGE

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

No, no, no, no. No matter WHAT happens next. No.

[butlerweave]

Chuck and the other guy are mentally unstable .

[TornadoAlley3]

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-increasing-oversight-states-illegally-using-federal-medicaid-funding-health-care-illegal

Trump has a message at top of CMS webpage🤣🤣

[9YearLurker]

Listen to NPR (take one for the team!) and you won’t here a word about the funding for illegals’ healthcare.

Look to alternative media or even announcements from the WH, and of course that’s the first thing they mention.

[poconopundit]

Thanks for checking on NPR. It’s interesting to hear their duplicity in not mentioning the funding of illegals’ healthcare.

We need to hang tough... and watch the Democrats implode and lose even MORE credibility as a party.

[MrRelevant]

The hills these clowns die on…….

[NorthMountain]

and resumption of funding for PBS and NPR.

May I recommend that those entities always be referred to as

The OBSOLETE CPB
The OBSOLETE PBS
The OBSOLETE NPR?

They were created under the pretense that private television and radio wouldn't produce "needed" educational and documentary content. Cable TV and internet content creators continue to produce more and better documentary and educational content than the obsolete CPB and the obsolete PBS ever managed.

[9YearLurker]

They had me captive in my car and were on half the radio stations, what else could I do?

[Robert357]

When are Democrats and the Media going to apologize to Congressman Joe Wilson, who shouted out (during a joint session of Congress) that President Obama lied, when he said that Obamacare would never be available to illegal aliens?

[gildafarrell]

Un”freakin”believable. But it’s par for the course by demoncRATS to value criminals above the citizenry. Get the criminals alias illegals out of this country ASAP.