"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continues to express her outrage over the death of Renee Nicole Good, a queer wife and mother who was shot three times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while driving away from him. In a recent conversation with a reporter, Ocasio-Cortez drew a direct connection between increasing health care costs and the funding ICE has been allotted to wage its terror campaign in blue cities."
""We're seeing what they are doing with this reckless explosion in funding, and mind you... I want everybody to understand: The cuts to your healthcare are what's paying for this. All that extra money that everybody's paying right now in their premiums... Nearly a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE.""
"Congress's One Big Beautiful Bill Act indeed eliminates about a trillion dollars in health care funding, which the Center for Medicare Advocacy called the largest rollback of federal health care funding in American history. Meanwhile, the bill provides ICE with $75 billion over four years. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the $11.25 billion allocated specifically for det"
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent and linked the killing to federal budget choices. She asserted that cuts to health care, totaling nearly a trillion dollars, have financed an expansion of ICE operations and that rising premiums reflect reduced public health spending. She characterized increased ICE funding as enabling violent enforcement in cities and said that citizens are effectively paying for those operations through higher health costs. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated roughly a trillion dollars in federal health-care funding while allocating substantial new resources to ICE, estimated at $75 billion over four years.
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