Republicans can’t defend Trump’s authorities shutdown. Donald Trump has but to step earlier than the cameras reside and defend his shutdown. Trump is the primary president within the many years lengthy historical past of presidency shutdowns to enter hiding and never converse to the nation.
The White Home and congressional Republicans have been defending their authorities shutdown by claiming that Democrats need to restore the Obamacare subsidies to offer “unlawful aliens” medical insurance.
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On the White Home press briefing on Friday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was confronted with the lie.
A reporter requested, “On the high of the briefing, you made a press release about that the Democrats are excited by giving healthcare to unlawful immigrants. Sure, they’re. US legislation already prohibits that. It’s a 1996 legislation saying that they can not give unauthorized immigrants any federally backed healthcare protection by means of Medicaid, the Reasonably priced Care, or the Kids’s Well being Insurance coverage Program. There appears to be a disconnect within the messaging.”
Leavitt tried to vary the topic to Medicaid, “Are you denying. That Medicaid cash has by no means gone to unlawful aliens in the USA of America.”
Undocumented immigrants can’t get Medicaid in the USA. It’s unlawful. Solely immigrants with authorized standing are eligible for Medicaid after a five-year ready interval.
The reply to Karoline Leavitt is not any, “unlawful aliens” can’t get Medicaid.
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Leavitt tried to vary the topic as a result of she is aware of that immigrants who’re within the nation illegally can’t get ACA subsidies, so the declare that Democrats are attempting to offer healthcare to non-citizens is a lie.
That lie hasn’t been purchased by the overwhelming majority of the general public, so all Leavitt can do when challenged on it’s change the topic to Medicaid, which she was additionally fallacious about.
The Trump administration can’t defend why they need to make medical insurance dearer, and trotting Karoline Leavitt out to dodge and weave, with a wholesome dose of lies, isn’t serving to.
Republicans are in a weak place on this shutdown, and the extra they attempt to defend it, the larger the catastrophe turns into.
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