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The Big Beautiful Bill kicks 1.4 MILLION illegal immigrants off Medicaid. [Senator Eric Schmitt today]
X ^ | July 1, 2025 | Eric Schmitt

Posted on 07/01/2025 2:38:10 PM PDT by deks

Yesterday, there were a lot of rumors floating around about the ban on Medicaid for illegal aliens being stripped from the bill.

Thankfully, that's not true. It's very much in the bill we just passed. You can look it up below. Page 602. Section 77109.

Here's where the rumor came from: During yesterday's vote-a-rama, an amendment banning Medicaid for illegal immigrants was voted down.

The clip of that vote started circulating online—and folks took that to mean that the provision had been stripped from the bill altogether.

But that was just one of many "messaging amendments," designed to force Democrats to vote against specific provisions—in this case, a ban on some Medicaid funding for illegal aliens who commit heinous crimes—on the record. It was meant to show the public how radical they are.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; bbb; citizenship; daca; ericschmitt; healthcare; illegals; maga; medicaid; teaparty
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The ban itself was ALREADY in the bill. It was never taken out.

And it wasn't just a ban on some Medicaid for illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes—it applies to ALL Medicaid for ALL illegal immigrants. (And most noncitizens generally).

The bill we passed actually goes much further—beyond banning Medicaid for 1.4 million illegal aliens, it:

• Requires states to verify citizenship status before providing coverage • Bans automatic Medicaid enrollment for children of illegal aliens • Excludes DACA from Medicaid

1 posted on 07/01/2025 2:38:10 PM PDT by deks
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To: deks

No wonder the Left is so rabidly hating this bill...


2 posted on 07/01/2025 2:40:38 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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To: deks

so they just ignored the parliamentarian?


3 posted on 07/01/2025 2:43:56 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: deks
You can look it up below. Page 602. Section 77109.

OK ... I'm glad it's still in there.

But this really shows how dysfunctional congress really is. Hundreds of pages of bill ... tens of thousands of sections ... Does ANYBODY really understand what all is in there?

4 posted on 07/01/2025 2:43:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: deks

So, as Stephen Miller points out, the best way to prevent illegals from getting benefits meant for Americans is to deport them.


5 posted on 07/01/2025 2:44:48 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: deks

Why on earth would they be there in the first place?


6 posted on 07/01/2025 2:45:21 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Today's Democrat Party is nothing but very bad performance art. )
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To: NorthMountain

>> Does ANYBODY really understand what all is in there?

We’ll have to pass it to know what’s in it. 🤣


7 posted on 07/01/2025 2:46:58 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: NorthMountain

Their “messaging amendment” sure made a lot of folks angry on our side!


8 posted on 07/01/2025 2:47:17 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: deks

So let me ask you a question: THere are 20M illegals here. If someone gets sick, and ends up at the hospital, does the hospital kick them out? Are they even allowed to? So what this will do, in the short term, is bankrupt hospitals as they will not be reimbursed, especially rural hospitals. Unintended consequences.


9 posted on 07/01/2025 2:50:00 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: jacknhoo

Exactly


10 posted on 07/01/2025 2:52:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Hildy

I don’t care. They get sick, too bad.

They don’t like it? Go home.


11 posted on 07/01/2025 2:53:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Hildy

20 million?


12 posted on 07/01/2025 2:53:53 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: deks

How about the other 50 million illegals?


13 posted on 07/01/2025 2:54:21 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: deks
YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!
14 posted on 07/01/2025 2:56:41 PM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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To: Hildy

Hospitals will still pass the cost onto others by increased charges like they do for any unpaid bills. This does not endanger rural hospitals.

What it does is save us a crap ton of medicaid money currently being spent on routine medical care for illegals. They’ll just have to pay cash at urgent care or get charities to pony up for them.

Or go back to their home countries.


15 posted on 07/01/2025 2:58:17 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Hildy
An Illegal, on their way back from dropping off 200 ballots at a Drop Box in CA, stops at the hospital for a runny nose. The hospital MUST treat them, at taxpayer expense.

IS this a great country, or what?

16 posted on 07/01/2025 2:58:28 PM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: deks

Where did they conjure up this 1.4 million number? That’s a drop in the bucket. There are millions and millions just in California alone. I live in Southern California and you have to see it to believe it.


17 posted on 07/01/2025 3:02:52 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: 9YearLurker
How about the other 50 million illegals?

AT LEAST.

18 posted on 07/01/2025 3:03:46 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: deks

1.4 is a start


19 posted on 07/01/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by albie
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To: deks

1.4 million is a classic example of propaganda...

At least an order-of-magnitude underestimation of the target population of migrant invaders sucking on Medicaid’s teat...
IMHO...


20 posted on 07/01/2025 3:06:19 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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