WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries Freezes When Confronted With Proof Of Healthcare For Illegal Aliens In Dem Plan
 

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WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries Freezes When Confronted With Proof Of Healthcare For Illegal Aliens In Dem Plan


By Cullen McCue
Oct. 03, 2025








House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was at a loss for words when CNN host Jake Tapper confronted him with the fact that some portions of the Democratic Party’s demands in the ongoing shutdown fight will provide healthcare for illegal aliens and non-citizens.

Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have claimed that they are merely arguing in favor of a continuation of Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that are set to expire and additional healthcare expenditures for American citizens. “It’s a total, absolute [expletive] lie,” Schumer fumed while speaking with MSNBC on Wednesday morning.

Jeffries has said the same, claiming that Republican arguments on the issue constitute an “outright lie.”

“Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to provide medical coverage to undocumented individuals. That’s the law. And there is nothing in anything that we have proposed that is trying to change that law,” he said during a September 30 interview with CNBC.


Republican leaders, including Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), have pushed back by pointing to Biden-era programs that allowed non-citizens to receive healthcare benefits. “Yes, it is illegal for illegal aliens to receive health care paid for by hardworking American taxpayers. But [Democrats are] making the demand to change that. … That’s one of Chuck Schumer’s primary demands to keep the government open,” Johnson told CNN on September 28.


As the shutdown dragged on towards the 24-hour mark on Wednesday, Jeffries once again appeared on CNN to claim that Republican arguments about healthcare for illegal aliens are false. Host Jake Tapper responded by pointing to exact provisions that contract the Democrats’ line of attack.

“So let me ask you about a provision that the Republicans are talking about quite a bit. I know you want to talk about and Democrats want to talk about extending the Obamacare subsidies which expire at the end of 2025. But they talk about the provisions and it’s right here,” Tapper said while showing Jeffries the provision.

“Subtile e, and this has to do with the repeal of health care subtitle changes and specifically what it is they they’re how they characterize it, is you want to give health insurance uh to undocumented immigrants,” he continued, at which point Jeffries interjected with “that’s a lie.”

Tapper agreed, though he did note that the plan “does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented immigrants and people who don’t have health insurance.”

“And also there is this provision, and it’s not about undocumented immigrants, it’s about people with asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status, et cetera, et cetera, but about their ability to get Medicaid. So they’re non -citizens, they’re not undocumented, they’re not illegal. Why even include that in a bill knowing that they’re going to seize right upon that and use that to message?”






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Tapper Corners Hakeem Jeffries Over Medicaid Provisions For Migrants


By Carmine Sabia
Oct. 03, 2025






House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat for an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he may have thought was going to be a softball session — but he was mistaken.

Tapper got Jeffries to admit that what the Democrats are pushing for actually does fund healthcare for illegal aliens, as Republicans have said.

Jeffries said that “the continuing resolution that they have presented to Congress is a partisan bill.

House Democrats voted against it in March because it hurt veterans, hurt seniors, hurt children, hurt child care affordability, hurt housing affordability, and hurt healthcare, which is why we opposed it.”

“You’re saying that Chuck Schumer then voted for a Republican partisan bill because he voted for that so did nine other Democrats in the March, Tapper responded.

“Well, Chuck Schumer did explain his views on the merits of that bill at the time. I don’t think he ever disputed that there were challenging parts of that legislation. The partisan bill is the one that’s before us now. A bipartisan agreement on spending had actually been reached in December, bipartisan majorities in the House and the Senate. Joe Biden signed it into law. Then President-elect Donald Trump blessed it as well,” Jeffries said.

“So let me ask you about a provision that the Republicans are talking about quite a bit. I know you want to talk about, and Democrats want to talk about, extending the Obamacare subsidies, which expire at the end of 2025. But they talk about the provisions, and it’s right here, Subtitle E, and this has to do with the repeal of healthcare subtitle and specifically what it is. They — they’re — how they characterize — characterize it is, you want to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants. I understand that’s not really an accurate depiction,” the host said before Jeffries interrupt and said “That’s a lie.”

Tapper claimed that it was a “lie” but then proved it was not a lie when he said, “what you support does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented immigrants and people who don’t have health insurance. And also there is this provision, and it’s not about undocumented immigrants, it’s about people with asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status, et cetera, et cetera, but about their ability to get Medicaid. So they’re non-citizens, they’re not undocumented, they’re not illegal. Why even include that in a bill, knowing that they’re going to seize right upon that and use that to message?”


WATCH:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">�� CNN’s Jake Tapper calls out Hakeem Jeffries to his face:<br><br>TAPPER: Here is the provision that shows you want to give illegals healthcare. I understand it's not an accurate depiction<br><br>JEF FRIES: It's a lie<br><br>TAPPER: It's a lie... but it does bring back funding for healthcare for… <a href="https://t.co/pjcw6hyebi">pic.twit ter.com/pjcw6hyebi</a></p>&mdash; Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) <a href="https://twitter.com/martinwalsh__/status/1973511391114920150? ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >October 1, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


“Well, what we’re doing is fighting to protect the healthcare of the American people against the largest cut to Medicaid ever, 14 million American citizens are going to lose their healthcare as a result of what Republicans did,” Jeffries said.

“I’m talking about the Medicaid cuts that document that you just showed me, that was the one big ugly bill, 14 million Americans are going to lose access to healthcare. Their hospitals, their nursing homes, their community-based health clinics are closing because of what the Republicans have done,” Jeffries said after Tapper pressed.

“These are hard-working American taxpayers. And the Republicans know they’re lying about this issue. By the way, current federal law is clear, taxpayer dollars cannot be spent on Medicaid or Medicare or the Affordable Care Act related to undocumented immigrants, and not a single Democrat has raised the issue of trying to reverse that federal law,” he said.


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