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JD Vance Straight Up Lies About Dem Goals Amid Government Shutdown
['Malcolm Ferguson', 'Robert Mccoy', 'Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling']
New Republic
On the first day of the government shutdown, Vice President JD Vance tried to claim that it’s all the fault of Democrats for wanting to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. “There are two Biden-era programs that explicitly gave the taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens that we turned off when President Trump took over in January.… The Democrats want to turn it back on. And in their initial proposal, the first thing that they put out to reopen the government, they actually turned that money for health care benefits for illegal aliens back on.