
And you're talking about the price of health care and immigrants. The heart of the disagreement seems to be that Republicans do not think that illegal immigrants should have access to taxpayer-funded health insurance. And they don't. So the Democratic position, your official position here, is that illegal immigrants should not have any access to taxpayer-funded health insurance.
Does that include federal and state? Well, the federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, even the Affordable Care Act. That's the law. So this is a red herring from my Republican colleagues. They don't want to, you know, help folks out because they needed that money. And this should be pretty simple for people to understand. When they gave that extension of the 2017 tax cuts, which helped out the richest Americans,
it was partially paid for by taking away Medicaid and taking away these ACA tax credits for it was partially paid for by taking away Medicaid and taking away these ACA tax credits for people who just can't afford health care.
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