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Biden HHS Redefines ‘Lawfully Present’ To Give ‘Free’ Health Care To Illegal Immigrants

So much for a border crisis. The Biden administration recently finalized regulations that will provide taxpayer-funded benefits to individuals who came into this country lacking authorization, by defining them as “lawfully present.”

The final rule follows regulations proposed last spring. It will have the same major effects as the initial proposal by expanding access to taxpayer health benefits for specified populations, but seems craftily drafted in a way to avoid, or at least minimize, legal challenges.

Medicaid Expansion Not Finalized

The prime controversy in both last year’s proposed rule and this year’s final version is over health coverage for individuals participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Both regulations would revise the definition of “lawfully present” to include DACA participants for purposes of participation in health programs under Obamacare.

One major difference lies in the applicability of the regulatory changes. Whereas last year’s proposed rule changed the definition of “lawfully present” for both the insurance exchanges and Medicaid, the final regulation only applied the change to the exchanges, at least for the moment.

As a practical matter, not finalizing the Medicaid change will have little impact on DACA participants. Unlike most other populations, DACA participants will not need to earn income equal to the poverty level ($15,060 for a single person in 2024) to qualify for exchange subsidies. And because Biden-era enhanced subsidies remain in effect next year, the lowest-income recipients can qualify for subsidies that require no out-of-pocket premium for a benchmark health plan.

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Secret Service Investigates Man for Making Jokes About Bidens

Speculated about taking pictures of him in his ‘Depends’

The evidence is becoming more and more clear as court cases against President Donald Trump progress: Democrats appear to have weaponized the judicial process to support their claims that Trump was guilty of “fraud” in a case where no one lost money, is guilty of a felony over misdemeanor business document violations, interfered with an election by having – and expressing – his opinions.

And more.

On the other side, it seems, the U.S. Secret Service investigated a man for doing no more than making jokes about the Bidens.

“The Secret Service didn’t identify actual threats to Biden or his family, instead predicating the case on what it called the man’s ‘unusual interest’ in the family. This ‘unusual interest,’ however, appeared to be comprised of nothing more than obvious jokes that were critical of Biden,” according to an analysis published by The Daily Signal. “Zero comments by the Twitter user suggested a serious intent to engage in violence, according to the Secret Service documents released to the Oversight Project.”

The report said the Secret Service opened a formal investigation, and even took it to the next level, because of the social media posts of a Maine man. He was not identified in the report, and has not been charged with anything.

The Oversight Project discovered the apparent weaponization of the investigatory process through a Freedom of Information Act case.

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The Weekend at Bernie’s Election

It’s time for the most important election again, a rematch. The American voter will decide who will sit at the head of the world’s biggest government. A pick between two old men, each of whom have had four years as president.

Donald Trump, AKA “Orange Man,” has his fans, trolls, and “reformed” neocons clamor to see him upset the “woke” mob and to Make America Great Again II. Unlike last time, polls have shown more “non-white” voters than ever have an affection for Trump. And despite the best attempts of the corporate press and his legal concerns, Trump is currently ahead.

The incumbent, Joe Biden, is a lifelong politician who has gone from vicious careerist to giving awkward gaffs that Bushisms seem endearing and intellectually masterful. The “Ice Cream Man” has been propped up one more time to simply not be Trump, in the hopes that he can win again.  In this run Biden seems irritable and feisty but alive for now.

Trump and his ego exhibit great energy. On the other hand Biden may be powered by daily injections to help him walk, stand, and remind him of his name. Trump represents the zombie spirit of conservative nationalists desperate to re-live the Reagan era. Though Trump is no Reagan, even Reagan was not who he is romanced as being. “Morning in America” has passed. Trump represents the zombie which plods on, re-living the twentieth century, while some of his supporters yearn for a nineteenth century. Behind Trump lurks a segment of the establishment; no swamp was drained, and in fact he helped to fill it a bit more.

Biden is the “safe” candidate, controlled and, despite his hair sniffing and lost gaze, he is indeed not his opponent. That’s what matters. Within the minds of those who hate Trump and Republicans, all that matters is a Democratic victory. “Vote Blue No Matter Who!” gush the dogmatic in their desire to win regardless of principles. Biden as a man was well past his mental health once he stopped being vice president. The United States now has an almost corpse. He may well embody the twentieth century Democrat politician raised on segregationist and pro-war sensibilities who matured into a political animal that uses progressive talking points. The irony is that Trump, for much of his life, was more “woke” with his liberal sensibilities than Biden ever was. Although the re-packaging of one and the brash word play of the other have solidified each man into memes.

The praise granted to Trump’s presidency is that he did not start any new wars. This is the high water mark for American presidential virtue, overseeing the killing of fewer nationalities than predecessors. Although Trump did expand attacks on those nations already in the cross hairs of U.S. foreign policy, he did shake hands with the North Korean dictator in what could have been a “Nixon goes to China”-lite moment. In many ways, it seems the Trump administration laid out a template that Biden’s team adopted for themselves. Above all, Trump was not Hilary Clinton, and for many voters this was his most important trait.

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Latest Government Report Reveals 10 Times Biden Regime Pressured Facebook to Take Down What Ended Up Being Truthful Information on COVID and the Vaccines

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee released an 800 page report on the Biden White House censorship regime.

The report included numerous times the Biden regime threatened social media companies to censor, silence and take down information on the COVID origins and the COVID vaccines.

Here is the full 800 page report released by the House Judiciary Committee on the Biden Administration’s Censorship Industrial Complex.

On Thursday, investigative reporter Mike Benz revealed “10 flaming examples” Facebook, YouTube and Amazon explicitly said they only passed censorship policies because they were threatened by the Biden government.

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Japan And India Disagree With Biden’s Claim They Are “Xenophobic”

Japan and India have both responded to Joe Biden’s charge last week that they are “xenophobic” because they have not embraced mass immigration.

As we highlighted, Biden asserted that Japan and India are facing economic struggles while the US economy is performing well “because we welcome immigrants.”

“Think about it,” Biden said during a fundraiser, “Why is China stalling so badly economically, why is Japan having trouble, why is Russia, why is India, because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants. Immigrants are what makes us strong.”

Fox News reports that the Japanese Embassy responded to the comments, stating “We are aware that the U.S. government has clarified that President Biden’s comment was made in the context of explaining that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants and that immigrants make the U.S. stronger, and that his comment was not made with the intent of undermining the importance and permanence of the Japan-U.S. relationship.”

However, Japanese officials added “It is unfortunate that some of the comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policies, and we have raised this point to the U.S. government and explained Japan’s positions and policies once again.”

India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also took issue with Biden’s remarks, pointing to the country’s GDP growth and urging that India is an open society.

“I haven’t seen such an open, pluralistic, and diverse society anywhere in the world,” the minister stated during an Economic Times event, adding “We are actually not just not xenophobic, we are the most open, most pluralistic and in many ways the most understanding society in the world.”

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Biden Handlers “Looking to Shorten His Speeches” – But Won’t Admit Purpose is to Hide Cognitive Decline

Democrat strategist and Biden Deputy Campaign manager Quentin Fulks was on MSNBCs “The Weekend” to discuss Joe Biden’s 2024 strategy.

NBC reported that Biden’s campaign is looking to shorten Joe Biden’s speeches. Of course, this is to hide Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

Biden campaign spox Quentin Fulks insisted it’s about “quality over quantity.”

“Our campaign believes in quality over quantity. We believe that these touches, these smaller things that are getting to the point about what is going on in the stakes of this election are gonna be easier for the voters to tap into,” Fulks said.

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Biden Admin Covertly Pursued Gender Affirming Care For Kids In States Where The Practice Is Banned

America First Legal revealed documents on Thursday from its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), showcasing emails from Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine and indicating that the Biden Administration has engaged privately with “gender affirming care providers” from states that have outlawed these practices, pledging federal support to counteract such state laws.

In particular, Levine expressed significant concern for the LGBTI+ community in Idaho, emphasizing ongoing efforts to challenge these state measures nationally, the site pointed out. The documents were acquired through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request concerning Levine’s correspondence about pediatric transgender clinics.

Previously, in March 2023, Levine stated that the federal backing for transitioning children was comprehensive, even at presidential levels, and framed any opposition as politically motivated. The newly revealed records elaborate on the administration’s covert operations with advocates to push this agenda.

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Former Biden Cabinet Member Is ‘Concerned’ About Marijuana Legalization

A former U.S. labor secretary who previously served as mayor of Boston as Massachusetts’s marijuana legalization law came into effect, spoke out against what he described as a “slippery slope” of cannabis reform during a C-SPAN interview this week.

Marty Walsh, who also discussed his own substance use disorder and recovery in the interview, said he’s “worried” about legalization efforts and gets “concerned about where we’re headed there.”

Asked how he felt about his state’s move to legalize, the former Biden cabinet member replied: “I didn’t love it. When I was mayor of Boston, I fought it. I get concerned. I think it’s a slippery slope.”

Walsh, who opposed the 2016 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in his state and later voted against a proposed Democratic National Committee party plank to endorse cannabis legalization in 2020, noted that advocates at first seemed to want to decriminalize marijuana, then later pushed legalize it for medical uses.

“And now you have marijuana” legal for adults, he added. “And I’m just worried, you know. You have have some places in the country trying to legalize it and opioids. I get concerned about that. I just get concerned about where we’re headed there.”

Later in the interview, he claimed that “alcohol deaths are higher than, actually, opioid deaths at this point in our country,” and argued that manufacturers of dangerous or impairing substances should be liable for costs of therapy and recovery.

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Press Secretary Asked Why It Was Ok For Biden To Say “Bloodbath”, But Not For Trump To Say It

Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre displayed extreme cognitive dissonance Tuesday when asked by reporter Peter Doocy why it was ok for Joe Biden to use the term ‘bloodbath’ in 2020, but when Donald Trump uses it in a similar context it constitutes “violent rhetoric”.

As everyone knows, Trump was referring to potential job losses in the auto industry when he used the term. When Biden used the term, he was referring to the 2020 primary campaign becoming an internal “bloodbath” between Democrats.

It’s the same metaphorical use of the term, meaning a disastrous outcome that is good for no one.

So seeing Karine Jean-Pierre say the following is incredible.

“So when Donald Trump is talking about a bloodbath, it is violent rhetoric,” Doocy stated, adding “What was it when Joe Biden said in 2020, ‘what we can’t let happen is this primary become a negative bloodbath?’”

“You should read what he said in its context. So you gotta read what he said in context —” Jean-Pierre began.

Everyone has read it in context, and she and the Democrats know damn well what the context was when Trump said it, yet they continue to push this pathetic semantic charade because they have nothing else going for them.

“I understand. Bloodbath is an ugly word when Trump used it. What is it when Biden uses it?” Doocy interjected.

“No, no, no. Let’s be very clear. You gotta actually ask me the question in context of what it was said, right? And what it was said when he said that, right, in his remarks, in his speech. So that’s being disingenuous in your question,” the press secretary responded.

OK, so Doocy is the one being disingenuous for pointing out the context is the same.

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DIPLOMACY: Biden Calls U.S. Ally Japan ‘Xenophobic’ For Not Wanting Mass Immigration, Says It Hurts Their Economy

Joe Biden has described Japan, a staunch U.S. ally, as “xenophobic” for not wanting mass immigration.

In another diplomatic masterclass, Biden said the reason the U.S. economy was growing was because “we welcome immigrants.

“Think about it,” he said. “Why is China stalling so bad economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia?”

“Because they’re xenophobic,” he said. “They don’t want immigrants.”

The Japanese government has yet to respond to Biden’s comments.

While relations with China and Russia are at rock bottom, Japan is known as a staunch ally that cooperates with the U.S. on security matters and maintains strong economic ties.

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