It’s day three of the federal government shutdown, and the Democrat Party is doing its best to gaslight Americans about their position on taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.
In the lead-up to the federal government's funding running dry, Republicans on Capitol Hill voted to keep things open by passing a clean budget resolution. In years past, Democrats have done the same - more than a dozen times. But with Trump back in office for a second term, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the majority of their Party are demanding a reversal of Republican campaign deliveries codified by the Big Beautiful Bill (passed and signed into law over the summer). Liberals are holding services hostage until they get: the refunding of NPR, a re-institution of taxpayer funds for illegal aliens, and the revocation of a new $50 billion rural hospital fund.
Democrats are lying about their plans, exposed by their own statements in recent days, and have repeatedly proven Republicans are right to hold the line. First, Democrats claimed funding of illegal alien healthcare wasn’t happening, and now, they admit that’s exactly what’s going on.
"Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody,” Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters says
"If that means we gotta shut this government down, so be it!” Shri Thanedar said at the airport on his way out of town in reference to healthcare subsidies for illegals.
"The amount of money that actually is going towards people who are undocumented is such a small portion,” Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna argued during an interview with Fox Business.
Their own bill to "keep the government open" has an explicit paragraph dedicated to healthcare for illegal aliens titled, "Alien Medicaid Eligibility."
This, of course, didn’t start in 2025. Back when Obamacare was being debated and eventually passed in 2010, former Congressman Joe Wilson yelled out at the State of the Union that then President Barack Obama’s statement the new government program wouldn’t cover illegal aliens was a lie. Wilson was right.
“The Working Families Tax Cut Act (WFTCA), signed into law by President Trump, contains the most important America First healthcare reforms ever enacted. The policies represent a comprehensive effort to address waste, fraud, and abuse to strengthen the healthcare system for the most vulnerable Americans, ensuring that taxpayer dollars are focused on American citizens and do not subsidize healthcare for illegal immigrants,” the White House states. “Democrats are demanding these reforms be repealed as a condition of keeping the government open for four weeks. This would result in the federal government spending nearly $200 billion on healthcare for illegal immigrants and non-citizens over the next decade—nearly enough to fund the entire Children’s Health Insurance Program over the same period—all while repealing reforms that strengthen care for the most vulnerable Americans.”
“The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) prevents most immigrants from receiving Medicaid for five years. The drafters of Obamacare created a ‘special rule' to subvert this limitation by extending Obamacare premium subsidies to these same immigrants earning below the poverty line despite denying subsidies to poor Americans,” a White House memo continues. “The WFTCA repeals this 'special rule' for immigrants, once again ensuring non-citizens are not afforded a federal benefit not available to American citizens. Overturning this provision would result in $27.3 billion in federal premium subsidies for non-citizens over the next decade.”
In other words, federal dollars go to state healthcare programs and are then used for illegal alien healthcare. Republicans and the Trump administration are closing that loophole.
Not to mention, every Democrat running for President in 2020 has openly and publicly supported taxpayer-funded and subsidized healthcare for illegal aliens. Their 2024 nominee, Kamala Harris, held the same position.
The Democrats' credibility on this issue is completely nonexistent after Joe Biden’s four years of a wide-open border. Are we really supposed to believe Biden and the Democrats let in 20 million+ illegal aliens between 2020 and 2024 with no plans to give them taxpayer-funded healthcare? Come on.
Add all of this on top of outrageously dishonest claims from Democrats over the years about the illegal immigration issue. Including but not limited to:
-The majority of “undocumented” immigrants (illegal aliens) are “law-abiding”
-Crossing the border (without permission) isn’t a crime
-Illegals don’t vote
-Illegals don’t get taxpayer-funded healthcare
-Worksites are crime-free
-Exploitation of women and children, through sex and labor trafficking, is overblown
-Cartels don’t run Chicago or other major U.S. cities
-(Fraudulently) seeking asylum isn’t a crime
-Etc.
As the shutdown drags on, the political battle over reopening it intensifies by the hour. Normal Americans don't believe Democrats are against taxpayer funding for illegal alien healthcare. After all, they’ve been campaigning on it for years.
Once again, Democrats are choosing to represent an illegal alien constituency rather than the interests of the American people. The government shutdown, harming taxpayers and the people who work for them, is their doing.
