"PRESIDENT DONALD: So the shutdown continues. The Republican Party is not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country. Coming in for a lot of reasons, coming from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We're not going do that. So the shut down continues. It's a Democrat shutdown. It's Schumer's shutdown because his career has failed and it's over."
"The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog group, estimated that the spending proposal the Democrats released in September would add $1.5 trillion to the debt over the next decade. But that figure is not about undocumented people in particular. And the White House itself has claimed that Democrats are proposing to spend about $193 billion much less than Trump's $1.5 trillion on health care for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens, the emphasis ours."
A claim asserted that Democrats would spend $1.5 trillion on health care for undocumented immigrants, tying the allegation to the government shutdown. Fact-checking indicates undocumented people are generally ineligible for Obamacare subsidies and federal Medicaid, though hospitals must provide emergency care regardless of immigration status. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that a Democratic spending proposal would add $1.5 trillion to the debt over a decade, but that figure applies to broader spending. The White House itself cited a much smaller figure, about $193 billion, for health care for non-citizens.
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