US Democrat strategist Jim Kessler has disputed the claim the US government shutdown was due to Republicans cutting healthcare funding for illegal immigrants.
US Democrat strategist Jim Kessler disputes illegal immigrant healthcare claim by Vice President JD Vance A Democrat strategist has disputed the claim that the US government shutdown was due to Republicans cutting healthcare funding for illegal immigrants.
US Democrat strategist Jim Kessler has disputed the claim the US government shutdown was due to Republicans cutting healthcare funding for illegal immigrants. Mr Kessler argued the Democrats were “trying to protect people’s healthcare” by blocking President Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ which eliminated a series of health insurance subsidies. The Democrat poured cold water on Vice President JD Vance’s claim the shutdown was due to the Democrats seeking to stop the Trump administration from blocking “billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens”. On Wednesday, the White House warned that worker layoffs were imminent as the first day of the government shutdown unfolded. Pictured is the United States Capitol building in Washington DC. Picture: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images”I mean, there’s been a law in the book saying illegal immigrants can’t get these subsidies and health care aid at least since 1996. Maybe some sneak through and somehow they get it. But that’s not the reality in this country.””Democrats and their Fake News allies want you to believe it’s all a lie that Democrats shut down the government over free healthcare for illegal aliens,” the White House said in a statement.FACT:Democrats’ proposal would result in nearly $200 billion spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens over the next decade — enough to fund the entire Children’s Health Insurance Program.” The White House released a memo factchecking the factcheckers and defended Vance’s claim. Picture: The White House”The president is seen as someone who breaks things, not repairs things,” he said. “The blame for the shutdown, more often than in the past, will probably go to President Trump … so this is going to play out, I think, over the course of weeks.” The White House memo said the Working Families Tax Cut Act , signed into law by President Trump, represented a “comprehensive effort” to address waste, fraud, and abuse while ensuring taxpayer dollars do not subsidise healthcare for illegal immigrants. “Democrats are demanding these reforms be repealed as a condition of keeping the government open for four weeks,” the memo read. “Democrats are demanding these reforms be repealed as a condition of keeping the government open for four weeks,” the memo read. Picture: The White House Mr Kessler said either the Democrats, Republicans or both were “going to have to give” in the end as there was an imbalance of optics between the two parties.The way cause pain is really through messaging and by saying, ‘look, we’re trying to protect people’s health care, we are trying to make sure people’s healthcare premiums don’t go up,’ and their goal is to get that message out so that voters hear that and say, ‘well, this shutdown is worth it,'” he said. “Trump can do all sorts of things by saying, ‘I’m going to fire people. I’m going to stop national parks from being open. I’m to make it so this road doesn’t get built,’ so the president has much more leverage in this situation.” Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on furlough with a range of important government services suspended. Mr Kessler said the shutdown gave rise to a situation where Democrats and Republicans will “try and inflict as much pain on the other side as possible politically”. “The issue for Democrats is they really don’t have that much leverage to cause pain for Republicans,” he said. Over the last half century, the 20 previous shutdowns have lasted on average eight days and a median of four days. On Wednesday, the White House warned that worker layoffs were imminent as the first day of the government shutdown unfolded. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters government agencies are already preparing for cuts. “Unfortunately, because the Democrats shut down the government, the president has directed his Cabinet and the Office of Management and Budget is working with agencies across the board to identify where cuts can be made and we believe that layoffs are imminent,” Ms Leavitt said.Mr Vance acknowledged the situation could escalate quickly into layoffs if the shutdown continues even as he said no final decision has been made about whether certain workers will be laid off or furloughed. “Well, first of all, we haven’t made any final decisions about what we’re going to do with certain workers,” he told reporters.
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