"COLLINS: So, I heard you make that first point at the White House yesterday, after the meeting y'all had with the President and with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. As you know, people who are here in the United States legally have never been eligible for the Obamacare subsidies for Medicare, for Medicaid. JOHNSON: Yes. COLLINS: So, what exactly are you saying that they're trying to do when you talk about giving free health care to them?"
"JOHNSON: I'm so glad you asked. OK. So when we passed the one big, beautiful bill, the Working Families Tax Cut, we had Medicaid reforms in the bill. You and I talked about it on the air. What we did was to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse. There were a lot of people on the program, who were enrolled in the program, who were never eligible to be there."
Kaitlan Collins pressed Speaker Mike Johnson on Republican claims that Democrats intend to provide free health care to illegal immigrants amid a looming government shutdown. Collins noted that people lawfully present in the United States have never been eligible for Obamacare subsidies, Medicare, or Medicaid. Johnson cited the Working Families Tax Cut and Medicaid reforms intended to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse and said many enrollees had been ineligible. He asserted Medicaid is intended for eligible U.S. citizens, said Democrats voted against the reforms, and noted the President signed the bill into law.
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