MSNBC Cuts Off JD Vance Amid Claims Dems Want to Fund Healthcare for People ‘Who Can’t Even Speak English’
MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing cut off Vice President JD Vance while he made remarks on the government shutdown during Wednesday’s White House press briefing. Jansing cut into Vance’s remarks to offer a quick fact check, noting what he just said was “not true.”
“If you look at the legislative text that they gave us, they tried to turn on two separate provisions that would give health care benefits to illegal aliens,” Vance said during the briefing, repeating President Donald Trump’s claim that Democrats want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants. Vance added:
Number one, if you’re an American citizen, you’ve been to a hospital in the last few years, you probably noticed that wait times are especially large, and very often somebody who’s there in the emergency room waiting is an illegal alien—very often a person who can’t even speak English.
Why do those people get health care benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens? The answer is a decision made by the Biden administration that the Trump administration, working with congressional Republicans, undid. We turned off that money spigot to health care funding for illegal aliens. The Democrats in their legislative text want to turn it back on. That’s one thing. The second thing, Matt, is we all know that there are various ways in which the Biden administration waved away illegal immigration status.
They gave parolees; they gave asylum claims to people who weren’t really claiming asylum. And when they waved the magic wand of amnesty, giving millions of people legal status even though they were in the country illegally, they also gave those people access to health care benefits. So what the Democrats are engaging in is—
“So that is not true. So let me tell you several points that are true,” Jansing said, adding:
The Democratic proposed continuing resolution does not provide free health care to undocumented immigrants, nor are Democrats advocating for that. But even beyond that, undocumented immigrants cannot buy health care plans on the ACA exchange.
Therefore, they cannot benefit from the subsidies that the Democrats are talking about. In addition to that, they cannot enroll in Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It is important to note providing free health care to undocumented immigrants is against federal law. For the most part, undocumented immigrants are barred from using federally funded health care programs. Those are the facts. Let’s go back to the Vice President.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
