As the nation careens towards a likely government shutdown, President Donald Trump and top Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have falsely accused Democrats of demanding that free health care be given to “illegal aliens.”
Leaving the White House Tuesday morning, Trump claimed Democrats “want to be able to take care of people that are coming into our country illegally,” adding they “want to give them full health care benefits.”
After a meeting between Trump, Republican leaders and Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries meant to hash out differences to avert a shutdown, Vance made the same claim.
The vice president said the Democrats’ proposal was sending the message that they “want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of millions of dollars, to illegal aliens for their health care while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills.”
But those claims are false.
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