A newly published memorandum from the White House has ignited a firestorm of controversy, revealing what critics claim is a severe breach of trust by Democrats toward American taxpayers.
Concealed within their continuing resolution is a significant push to overturn President Trump’s landmark America First healthcare reforms, which were intended to shield American citizens from subsidizing the medical costs of illegal immigrants.
The memo suggests that, should the Democrats prevail, taxpayers could be burdened with nearly $200 billion in healthcare entitlements for illegal immigrants and non-citizens over the next decade—remarkably close to the total funding required for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) during the same timeframe.
The Working Families Tax Cut Act (WFTCA), enacted under Trump, aimed to terminate taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants and redirect finances to assist the most vulnerable among us. Key provisions of this act included:
- Eliminating Medicaid and Medicare funding for most non-citizens.
- Closing the loophole in California that allowed states to misuse federal funds for illegal immigrant healthcare.
- Preventing emergency Medicaid expansions that provided hospitals with greater reimbursements for treating illegals than for caring for American children and the elderly.
- Abolishing the Obamacare “special rule” that offered subsidies to immigrants below the poverty line while denying them to American citizens in similar financial situations.
The memo clearly outlines the financial repercussions of rescinding Trump’s reforms:
- $91.4B – Reviving Obamacare funding for non-citizens
- $34.6B – Reopening California’s Medicaid loophole
- $28.2B – Emergency reimbursements for illegal care
- $27.3B – Obamacare “special rule” subsidies for non-citizens
- $6.2B – Medicaid expenditures for non-citizens
- Total: $192.8 BILLION
Democrats and their allies in the media aim to convince you that it’s merely a fiction that government shutdowns could result from proposals for free healthcare for illegal aliens.
However, this narrative is supported by hard evidence. As Vice President JD Vance stated, “It’s not something that we made up. It’s not a talking point. It is in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government.”
As the White House memo indicates, Democrats’ proposal seems to offer extensive benefits to illegal aliens at the expense of crucial healthcare reforms aimed at benefiting American citizens.
Here’s what you must understand:
- FACT: The Democrats’ proposal would allocate nearly $200 billion for healthcare for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens over the next decade—an amount sufficient to finance the entire Children’s Health Insurance Program.
- FACT: The plan would reinstate Medicaid eligibility for individuals granted asylum and parole amid Biden’s lax border policies.
- FACT: Medicaid would be mandated to reimburse for emergency services provided to illegal immigrants at a higher rate than it does for American citizens who are elderly, disabled, or minors.
- FACT: The legislation would permit California to continue exploiting loopholes for Medicaid funding related to illegal immigrants.
- FACT: A reintroduction of the Obamacare subsidy for non-citizens would occur, which denies low-income American citizens access to equivalent benefits.
- FACT: The proposal would nullify a monumental $50 billion investment in rural healthcare.
- FACT: Ten million American citizens would be stripped of their Health Savings Accounts.
You can peruse the complete memo below:
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