Rep. Maxine Waters Admits Dems forced government shutdown to Get ‘health care for everybody’ — including illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON —
Longtime Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) acknowledged that her party forced the government into a shutdown on Wednesday in order to secure “health care for everybody” — including illegal immigrants.
Waters, 87, was questioned outside the US Capitol Tuesday about Democrats’ opposition to a stopgap funding bill in both chambers of Congress that would have kept the government’s lights on until Nov. 21.
“Are Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens?” asked LindellTV reporter Alison Steinburg.
“Democrats are demanding health care for everybody,” Waters responded, hours before her Senate
colleagues blocked the spending measure.
“We want to save lives,” she added. “We want to make sure that health care is available to those who would die not having the help of their government.”
“So you’re good with a government shutdown, even if it means giving health care to people who aren’t American citizens?” Steinburg followed up.
“That’s what you’re pushing on,” Waters shot back. “You’re standing here and you’re trying to make me say that somehow we’re going to put non-citizens over Americans.
“Quit it! Stop it!” she fumed. “This is the kind of journalism we don’t need. You’re divisive.”
Jeffries, in a viral interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, also said it was a “lie” that Democrats want to give away health insurance benefits to illegal immigrants.
“But what you support does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented immigrants,” Tapper
pushed back.
Between fiscal years 2017 and 2023, “federal and state governments spent a total of $27 billion on emergency Medicaid services for people who were ineligible for full Medicaid coverage because of their immigration status,” the Congressional Budget Office
found.
Provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will eliminate non-citizens’ access to the services starting next year.
Waters, 87, was questioned outside the US Capitol Tuesday about Democrats’ opposition to a stopgap funding bill in both chambers of Congress that would have kept the government’s lights on until No…
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