"The White House and congressional Republicans say that Democratic lawmakers caused the federal government shutdown as part of an effort to extend health care benefits to undocumented immigrants. However, as several independent experts interviewed by NPR note, that claim is false. At the center of the standoff is the Trump administration's Working Families Tax Cut Act, also known as President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," signed into law in July."
"The White House insists the law protects taxpayers by preventing undocumented immigrants from getting government health benefits but such individuals were already barred from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, exchanges. "It's a complete distortion," says Leighton Ku, the director of George Washington University's Center for Health Policy Research. It is "simply wrong in the details," he says."
Republican leaders and the White House attributed the government shutdown to Democratic efforts to extend health benefits to undocumented immigrants. Independent experts and analysts state that undocumented immigrants are already barred from Medicaid and ACA exchanges, making that claim false. The dispute centers on the Working Families Tax Cut Act, nicknamed "One Big Beautiful Bill," enacted in July. Democrats view the law as tax breaks for the wealthy funded by deep Medicaid cuts and sought reversal and extension of expiring ACA subsidies in a funding bill. Republicans countered that their proposal ensures taxpayer dollars do not subsidize healthcare for undocumented immigrants.
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