Donald Trump 'That ends now:' White House vows removal of illegal immigrants from taxpayer benefits
The White House is ramping up efforts to remove illegal immigrants from an array of taxpayer-funded benefits, framing the move as part of a broader campaign to reduce government waste.
The Trump administration shared additional details on the new restrictions that would bar illegal immigrants from accessing more than 15 federal assistance programs, which collectively account for $40 billion in public spending.
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital that illegal immigrants will no longer be able "to steal public benefits at the expense of hardworking American taxpayers."
"That ends now. Under President Trump, it’s America first always," Rogers said.
The lion's share of the programs being put off-limits to undocumented immigrants are overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, while others fall under the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Labor, and Justice.
The White House said that several government health services – including Head Start, substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, family planning benefits, and health workforce loans and scholarships – will be inaccessible to illegal immigrants.
The move aligns with President Donald Trump's dual campaign promise of stricter immigration enforcement and elimination of wasteful government spending.
I know. The low information goose steppers can't seem to make up their minds.
"The Undocumented aren't getting welfare benefits." "The Undocumented DESERVE those welfare benefits." "The Undocumented are not able to vote." "The Undocumented have every right to vote."
Speaking of Medicaid, this article simplifies what the Big Beautiful Bill laid out. (Good thing too, because I linked to that bill and most of the idiots here lacked the education to read it.)
As the bill inched across the finish line, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed claims that the measure would strip vulnerable Americans of their healthcare.
"This bill protects Medicaid… for those who truly deserve this program, the needy, pregnant women, children and sick Americans who physically cannot work. It ensures that able-bodied Americans who can work 20 hours a week are actually doing so, and that will therefore strengthen and protect those benefits for Americans who need it," Leavitt told reporters during a White House briefing last month.
Leavitt added that the measure will address "waste, fraud and abuse" and remove approximately 1.4 million illegal immigrants from the program.
"It is perfectly reasonable for taxpayers who are paying into the Medicaid program to insist that everyone in the program who can contribute do so, by working," Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, previously told FOX Business.
The bill asks Medicaid members who are able-bodied, prime-age adults without children to work or volunteer roughly 20 hours a week.
For those of you looking at this and now drooling on your keyboard, let me simplify it.
Medicaid...for poor people...who cannot work. (NOT FOR LAZY ASS PEOPLE WHO CAN WORK BUT DO NOT.) For able bodied Americans without children, they can work 20 hours a week. (THAT'S HALF A WORK WEEK FOR THE TAXPAYERS WHO ARE FOOTING THE BILL.)
Work for 20 hours or volunteer for 20 hours.
Simple.
(Now we watch as the goose stepping idiots try to spin this.)
"Ohhh...who will pick the lettuce?" Well...there are roughly 700K illegals working ag. Others work in the hotel & restaurant businesses. So, about 1.5 - 3 million illegals out of more than 30 million are gainfully employed. So, what about the remaining 27 million-ish illegals in the country? Yeah...freeloaders leveraging the welfare system.
@Roundandroundwego Uh, there are plenty of workers for the harvest. Farmers just need to remember a little DEMOCRAT item called the MINIMUM WAGE. Farmers who use illegal aliens to work for below minimum wage are breaking the law.
I thought you left wingers PROMOTED THE MINIMUM WAGE.
But to you it's okay for farmers to pay slave wages (your term) just to keep these illegal DEMOCRAT voters here?
Means nothin, blue sanctuary states are funding their illegals with our state taxpayer money now... and word now is Trump is going to give amnesty to most of them later this year, and the way he going about things i believe good chance it will happen
