Dem Rep. Levin on Tax Dollars Going to Illegals' Emergency Care: That's Not What This Is About

On Friday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) responded to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that taxpayers have to foot the bill for emergency care for illegal immigrants and that California has had issues with illegal immigrants in the health system by saying that “pretty much anything that Karoline Leavitt says I wouldn’t take at face value for one, but it’s very clear what this fight is over, and it’s not about undocumented immigrants getting health care.”

Host Connell McShane played video of Leavitt saying, “In Southern California, according to healthcare professionals in 2023, under the Biden administration, Southern California’s, quote, entire healthcare system was being bombarded with illegal immigrants and forcing American patients to endure