"JENNINGS: I'm saying, I'm listening to Democratic arguments about most policy issues, and I'm looking at Democratic energy, and it mostly has to do with things to do with immigrants, illegal and some legal, and things to do with government bureaucrats. And right now, you're putting COLLINS: Yes, but JENNINGS: one of your constituencies out of business."
"Can I say one thing, which is that people who are in the country illegally cannot get these subsidies that we're talking about. FINNEY: Correct. JENNINGS: Sure they can. Sure they can. FINNEY: No, they can't. COLLINS: No, they can't. It's JENNINGS: Sure they can. When they FINNEY: They can't. COLLINS: It's federal law, Scott, as you know."
"JENNINGS: Who who do you think COLLINS: But FINNEY: Scott. JENNINGS: who do you think pays when they go to the emergency room? It's the Medicaid emergency program. COLLINS: Scott, going to the emergency room is not getting an Obamacare subsidy. And the emergency room is not health care, Scott. JENNINGS: You guys are conflating. You guys are conflating these issues. FINNEY: No, we're not, Scott. JENNINGS: Yo"
President Donald Trump and several Republicans advanced a claim that Democrats support giving undocumented immigrants free health care, a claim fact-checkers deemed false. Vice President JD Vance repeated the assertion at a White House briefing. During CNN's The Source, anchor Kaitlan Collins and Democratic analyst Karen Finney corrected GOP analyst Scott Jennings, stating undocumented immigrants cannot receive Obamacare subsidies and citing federal law. Jennings pointed to emergency-room care financed through Medicaid emergency provisions, but Collins and Finney distinguished emergency care from subsidy eligibility and pushed back on conflating those issues.
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