Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to bring out his very old, recycled, tattered and brused LIE to defend the government shutdown, by claiming Sen. Schumer's CR proposal wants to fund healthcare for "illegal aliens," which is completely false.
Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA subsidies are not available to any undocumented migrant, so Republicans then attacked treating migrants in emergency rooms.
When questioned on this, Speaker Johnson claimed it was a small subset of what he is talking. Again, another fat juicy lie.
ACA premiums EXPLODE in three months, Mike. And your party doesn't want to fix that.
Q: Speaker Johnson, a lot of the free health care for illegal aliens that you've been talking about is care provided in emergency rooms, which are required by federal law to care for anybody, ev