"Vance added: Number one, if you're an American citizen, you've been to a hospital in the last few years, you probably noticed that wait times are especially large, and very often somebody who's there in the emergency room waiting is an illegal alienvery often a person who can't even speak English. Why do those people get health care benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens? The answer is a decision made by the Biden administration that the Trump administration, working with congressional Republicans, undid."
"Jansing cut into Vance's remarks to offer a quick fact check, noting what he just said was not true. If you look at the legislative text that they gave us, they tried to turn on two separate provisions that would give health care benefits to illegal aliens, Vance said during the briefing, repeating President Donald Trump's claim that Democrats want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants."
An MSNBC anchor interrupted the vice president during a White House press briefing to deliver a rapid fact check and call a statement inaccurate. The vice presidential remarks alleged that legislative text would restore healthcare benefits for undocumented immigrants and linked long emergency-room wait times to undocumented patients. The remarks repeated a presidential claim that Democrats want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants and asserted that prior Trump-administration actions had curtailed access that the Biden administration allegedly restored. The fact check stated that the proposed Democratic continuing resolution does not provide free healthcare to undocumented immigrants.
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