GOP blames government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That’s false

Of course it is

Lol I’ma tell my boss that undocumented workers are the reason I’m not doing my job. That’ll work well.

They don’t need to tell the truth… they don’t even need to tell a decent lie

They can spill any kind of bull and their base will eat it up like the submissive morons they are

**REPUBLICANS LIE** <<< all you need to know

The *only* way undocumented immigrants can get federally funded healthcare is at the ER. That’s how it’s always been, it’s nothing new and unrelated to what the Dems are trying to extend.

And we’re going to need articles 3x a day until this is over saying this. Because that’s how long this lie is going to be repeated.

Republicans have the gall to claim that Democrats are “holding the country hostage” while Trump is issuing ultimatums and threatening Americans with “maximum pain.” He’s trying to bully Democrats into folding by vowing to impose mass layoffs, withhold funds, and permanently disrupt government services.

Republicans only tried to push a stopgap bill forward at the last minute so they could attempt to control the narrative. Which is made evident by the fact that GOP representatives were absent during key votes on government funding bills earlier in the month.

The stopgap measure failed because Trump and his GOP lackeys refused to negotiate—up till the very last moment—on rolling back their massive cuts to healthcare for millions of Americans *citizens,* and all while dismissing the reality that healthcare costs for Americans will increase considerably if ACA subsidies are not extended.

It’s worth noting that Democrats could have made far more demands of Republicans when you consider the widespread consequences of Trump’s other policies and his so-called “big beautiful bill,” but they chose to narrow their focus on healthcare.

Instead of cooperating with Democrats to help avert a shutdown, Trump used this opportunity to threaten to layoff more civil servants and dismantle important government services—an ultimatum that he knows will endanger American livelihoods.

It certainly sounds like Trump is the one holding the country hostage… But that won’t stop Republicans from trying to distort the facts and mislead the public.

Trump also insisted that a shutdown will benefit him politically, implying that he couldn’t care less about the harm his actions will inflict on Americans and the federal workforce.

But apparently Dems are the villains in this scenario. Go figure…

Trump exploited the inevitability of a shutdown—without any regard for the consequences—to dominate the narrative and blame his political opponents for his own inaction and his petty vindictiveness throughout this whole fiasco.

According to recent polls however, most Americans will hold him and the GOP responsible for this result.

The claim that Dems are to blame because they’re demanding that Republicans expand healthcare to “illegals” is an utter myth.

The Dem proposal includes nothing about giving healthcare to immigrants and merely asks that some healthcare cuts affecting *millions of Americans citizens* be rolled back, and that subsidies be extended so American’s healthcare costs don’t skyrocket.

Republicans have consolidated power throughout every branch of government. Trump cancelled a meeting with top Democrats meant to help avert a shutdown, telling them to “go f-ck themselves,” But the GOP is trying desperately to control the narrative and point fingers at their political opponents; choosing to focus most of their energy on politicizing this outcome rather than avoid it.

Sadly, their voters have taken the bait…

Over and over again I hear, “Democrats want to spend your hard earned tax dollars on healthcare for undocumented immigrants.” This is right-wing propaganda that has been packaged in many different forms over the years.

The Democrat proposal wants to extend healthcare subsidies and roll back Medicaid cuts included in Trump’s “big beautiful bill.”

There is nothing in the proposal about offering healthcare to immigrants. In fact, undocumented immigrants are barred from most federally funded healthcare programs.

Democrats are not “shutting down the government because they want to give healthcare to ‘illegals!'” They have only asked Republicans to help prevent healthcare costs from surging and to rein in their massive cuts to Medicaid that they unanimously decided to deprive millions of Americans of under the guise of some bullshit, xenophobic narrative about immigrants stealing tax dollars. A tired narrative that they’ve relied on so often in the past.

I am still confused why articles don’t just say “That is a lie.”

Rather than “That’s false.”

“That’s false” hits a lot less hard than “That is a lie.” Especially if “That is a lie” were repeated across every article where they fucking lie. It accumulates

A
Lie.

Not false. Etc.

A deliberate lie. Disinformation.

Thank god *someone’s* willing to call it a lie in the headline

We know

That is 100% correct! It’s about tax breaks for the rich. The cost is healthcare and the distraction is undocumented people.

The shutdown is because Republicans want tens of millions to die in the name of greed.

Edit 1 – The tens of millions dead, are 100% Americans.