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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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