Eight days into the government “shutdown,” Senate Democrats on Wednesday cast their sixth vote to keep the doors closed. They remain hellbent on their ransom demand to add another $1.5 trillion in spending, a big chunk of which would help pay for health insurance for illegal immigrants. They insist that’s not the case.
They’re lying. And Americans know it.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey shows 49 percent of likely U.S. voters agree with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who said: “Democrats shut down the government to give hundreds of billions of free healthcare to illegal aliens, including the millions of illegal aliens to whom [Joe] Biden [and the] Democrats gave illegal amnesty.” Nearly one-third of respondents (32%) strongly agree with Miller’s assessment. The poll found 44 percent disagree, 38 percent strongly.
‘Reserved for Eligible Individuals’
Health policy expert Elle Minarik says Miller is “100 percent” correct. The Democrats’ ransom demand, Minarik says, would repeal the health title of the One Big Beautiful Bill, now known as the Working Families Tax Cut Act. Section 71109 of the package, passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, ensures that “Medicaid funds are reserved for eligible individuals by ending federal funding when an individual’s citizenship or immigration status has not been verified.”
The Democrat proposal repeals that provision and others in the Big Beautiful Bill, provisions that secure Medicaid for those it was created for — the elderly, disabled, children and other American citizens truly in need.
“It’s just proof that they do not even know what is in their own bill that they shut down the government over,” Minarik, program manager at Paragon Health Institute, told me Wednesday on the WHO Morning Show with Jeff Angelo in Des Moines.
It shouldn’t come as a shock that Democrats don’t know or don’t understand what’s in their own spending bill. After all, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once said of the behemoth government health care bill known as Obamacare, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Hellbound and Down 