WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the cost to taxpayers of Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border agenda on the Medicaid program. CBO estimates that the Biden-Harris Administration’s open border agenda cost federal and state taxpayers more than $16.2 billion to provide Medicaid-funded emergency services to illegal aliens since taking office. This is a staggering increase of 124% compared to the same period under the Trump Administration.
This analysis responds to a request from House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) calling on CBO to produce an analysis of Medicaid spending on emergency services for illegal aliens.
Chairman Arrington’s Statement:
“The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis confirms that the mass migration of illegal immigrants is costing billions of dollars to Medicaid – a program created to serve the health care needs of the most vulnerable Americans. This is on top of the executive action taken to provide $9 billion in Obamacare to illegal immigrants.
This Administration’s failure to secure the border not only brought millions of aliens unlawfully into the country but has also drained federal resources and disincentivized individuals from pursuing legal avenues for migration.
With over $16.2 billion flowing from federal and state governments’ coffers to pay for emergency services for illegal aliens, it is clear that Open Border Czar Vice President Harris’s failed border policies remain the greatest threat to both the United States’s national security and our economic standing.”
Background
President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) which barred illegal aliens from accessing most federal benefits, including Medicaid.
Despite PRWORA’s limitation on illegal aliens receiving federally funded Medicaid benefits, such aliens may receive Medicaid benefits for emergency services.
Specifically, Medicaid is required to cover health care services necessary to treat an emergency medical condition for illegal aliens who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid if not for their immigration status.
The Bottom Line
Our unprecedented $35 trillion national debt is unsustainable and poses a significant risk to our nation’s fiscal security. The Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policies have led to millions of illegal aliens flooding across the Southwest border and ultimately tapping into health care benefits financed by hard working Americans’ tax dollars.
House Budget Committee Republicans are leading the charge to fully understand the budgetary effects of the surge in illegal migration and the impact on critical federal health care programs such as Medicaid, which must be safeguarded for the most vulnerable American citizens.
Reprinted with Permission from The House Budget Committee
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Hey, the Democrat Party has its priorities, and those priorities include giving the best medical care possible to their new, easy manipulated voter base of illegal aliens. Honestly, what did everyone think was going to happen when our borders were flung open and 12 to 15 million illegals were allowed to stroll into our country?
Along with taxpayer funded medical care, illegal aliens also get taxpayer funded housing, food, schooling and an assortment of several other perks. When you add the total list of everything that has been spent to support the illegal population, the CBO estimates over $400 billion dollars have been spent this year alone. That’s an annual expense that will keep mounting up for as long as we continue this insanity.
The solution to stopping the train wreck remains the same as it has always been: Get every Democrat out of elective office and fire all the Democrats embedded in the so-called Deep State. Easy? Of course not, but it is the only way you stop the runaway spending and have a chance of restoring fiscal sanity. Anything short of that will just ensure that the reckless and unsustainable spending will continue until foreigners no longer want to buy our ever more worthless debt known as U.S. Treasury Bonds. The choice is up to the American people, if they still have enough brains left to make the right decision and then stick to it.
Runaway spending is disastrous for our economic security. In any household, if there’s not enough income and if we don’t curb our spending, we’ll go into debt. Working longer hours, taking on a second job, or looking for employment that pays better are the options. But we must immediately move on that, or we risk losing our homes, our credit, and our families.
So, what do harris and walz want to do on a national scale? Instead of “curbing their spending”, they want to ensure that all of us, including illegal immigrants, have access to an “opportunity economy”. And what does that mean? To the democrats, that means taking money from hard-working taxpayers so the government can hand it over to felons wanting sex-change surgery, the Taliban (Hannity just said this administration wants to give them $3 billion), billion-dollar electric charging stations, and so many other untraditional causes. They want to increase home ownership by giving new homeowners a $25,000 gift and help new businesses with a $50,000 tax credit. This is a manipulative form of economy which is not sustainable. It just raises prices even further!
President Trump, by comparison, grew the economy organically. He removed expensive regulations and cut tax rates for just about everyone. Businesses expanded and offered better incomes because of tight competition for labor. Despite lower taxes, the Treasury took in more revenue simply because more people were working, more stuff was being sold, and wages were higher. That’s both sensible and sustainable.
Biden/harris drained $1 billion from FEMA to pay for some of their pet projects, including giving illegal immigrants medical care, an education, drivers’ licenses, free housing, and 3 meals a day. Harris (where’s biden?) moved immediately on that, but not for suffering Americans. All they can cough up for Americans citizens in flood-ravaged western North Carolina and other states in the Appalachian Mountains is a measly $750. Really??!! There has been a total shift of priorities, and they won’t work in the long run. Biden, harris, and walz are heartless and clearly don’t care about families–our neighbors and fellow citizens–when they need us the most.
If you vote for a Democrat, you are a MORON, you know who you are.