The Schumer Shutdown is now in full swing, and Democrats are trying to pin the blame on Republicans while hoping the public doesn’t notice the real issue driving the stalemate: their obsession with providing taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants. For years, Democrats have quietly embraced the idea. Now, as the shutdown drags on, they’re scrambling to hide their true agenda—and the cover-up is almost worse than the policy itself.
Take Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s meltdown this week on CBS. Asked about whether Democrats support giving healthcare to illegals, Warren lashed out, dodging and weaving as she tried to deny the obvious. She angrily insisted that “what we’re saying is that whenever hospitals are required to provide care in emergencies, they get reimbursed”—a carefully crafted answer designed to downplay the fact that Democrats have gone far beyond emergency care and are openly pushing for permanent benefits. The exchange made Warren look rattled, desperate to avoid being tagged with a position that most Americans find indefensible. (RELATED: Elizabeth Warren Has a Total Meltdown on CBS Over Illegals and Healthcare)
It’s no wonder Warren lost her cool. The party line is starting to collapse under its own weight. On Fox News, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) tried to claim with a straight face that Democrats “oppose” healthcare for illegals. That lasted all of about five second before host Lawrence Jones III brought the receipts.
He played footage from the Democratic presidential debate in June 2019, during which moderator Savannah Guthrie asked all the candidates about their health care plans. “This is a show-of-hands question, and, and hold them up for a moment so people can see,” Guthrie said. “Raise your hand … if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants,” and every candidate raised their hand. (RELATED: Fox News Just Humiliated a Senate Democrat Who Claimed Her Party Opposes Health Care for Illegals)
This confirms that free health care for illegal immigrants is a core Democratic Party policy. They openly embrace it when courting their base, but they know it’s toxic with the broader public. Now, in the midst of the government shutdown, they’re scrambling to deny it—more concerned with optics than honesty.
While some Democrats deny that giving free health care to illegal immigrants is their goal, others are accidentally saying the quiet part out loud. Earlier this week, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) indirectly admitted that Democrats do in fact want to provide free healthcare for illegals. When asked if Democrats support free health care for illegals, she didn’t deny it.
“Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody,” she said. “We want to save lives.”
They can’t have it both ways. They can’t spend years promising that illegals will get taxpayer-funded benefits while simultaneously insisting to the public that Republicans are making it all up. But that’s exactly what they’re attempting, and it’s blowing up in their faces. (RELATED: Maxine Waters Admits Dems Want Free Health Care for Illegals)
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been calling out the Democrats lies on illegal immigrant health care for days now. During an appearance on CNN, host Dana Bash, repeated the Democrats’ favorite talking point—that Republicans were holding the government hostage over a “myth” about healthcare for illegals. Johnson wasn’t having it.
Calmly and methodically, he laid out the truth: Democrats have voted time and again to protect funding streams that allow illegals to receive taxpayer-subsidized care. He explained how Democrats want to repeal a provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that closed the loophole that enabled illegal immigrants to get taxpayer-funded healthcare. (RELATED: Mike Johnson Destroys Dana Bash’s Left-Wing Talking Points on Schumer Shutdown)
Simply put: Democrats are lying about their position because they know it’s politically toxic. They’re shutting down the government in a cynical bid to secure funding that benefits people who aren’t even supposed to be in the country. And when confronted with their own words, they lash out, meltdown, or change the subject.
Make no mistake about it, the Schumer Shutdown is absolutely about Democrats trying to force taxpayers to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants—while hoping you’re too distracted to notice.
Between the Democrats lying about pretty much everything and the Republicans not solidly doing what the people sent them to DC to do, this country is on it's way to hell in a hand basket. At the national level Republicans don't fully support MAGA although their constituents do. Why should we reelect any of them if they won't do our will? Because if we don't we get Democrats!
Schumer mad a political decision, not a tactical decision. He doesn't want AOC to gain any traction. He's already done, and doesn't know it. Let the shutdown play out.
Again, the Democrats are being paid in their own coin...