The people in Aurora, across Colorado and all over the United States aren’t fooled. They know what’s really behind this government shutdown, and they know what’s really at stake: the health and financial security of millions of working families.

Despite a flood of rhetoric pouring out of Washington, the facts are clear. This government shutdown didn’t happen because Democrats want to hand out “free health care to illegal immigrants.” That claim, repeated by President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other top Republicans, is a flat-out lie.

As the Associated Press and other news agencies have reported, immigrants in the U.S. illegally are not eligible for Medicaid nor insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The Democrats’ position is simple and entirely focused on Americans

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