JD: “Yeah, so this is a Democrat talking point. They say we’re not actually trying to give healthcare benefits to illegal aliens, and here’s why it’s not true. There are two Biden-era programs that explicitly gave the taxpayer healthcare money to illegal aliens that we turned off when President Trump took over in January.

Program number one is there’s a lot of emergency healthcare at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens. That was funded by the federal government. We turned off that funding because of course we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed and then to have those hospital services go to illegal aliens.

The second of which is the Biden administration gave mass parole to millions upon millions of illegal aliens, and then they simultaneously made those parolees eligible for healthcare benefits funded by taxpayers. In the one big beautiful bill, President Trump and Congressional Republicans turned off that money to healthcare funding for illegal aliens. The Democrats want to turn it back on. And in their initial proposal, the first thing that they put out to reopen the government, they actually turned that money for healthcare benefits for illegal aliens back on.

So 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. It’s preposterous for them to run away from it now. But look, let’s set that all to the side. Let’s open up the government. Let’s negotiate on all these healthcare policy issues. Obviously we’re not going to support healthcare benefits for illegal aliens, but we will work with them to lower healthcare costs for American citizens if they’re willing to do so.”