President Donald Trump dropped a whopper of a falsehood in a rant to reporters as he landed in Florida for a weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump strode to the cameras on the tarmac Friday afternoon to handle reporters with out taking questions. He launched right into a tirade concerning the authorities shutdown he has struggled responsible on Democrats:
PRESIDENT DONALD: So the shutdown continues. The Republican Social gathering isn’t going to pay a trillion and a half {dollars} to unlawful immigrants coming into our nation.
Coming in for lots of causes, coming from prisons, from jails, from in all places, from Venezuela, many international locations. We’re not going try this.
So the shut down continues. It’s a Democrat shutdown. It’s Schumer’s shutdown as a result of his profession has failed and it’s over.
However CNN’s Daniel Dale, amongst others, has debunked that $1.5 trillion declare whereas explaining the place it got here from:
Leaving apart the subjective however doubtful declare that Democrats are in search of to destroy others’ well being care – Democrats are proposing to reverse Trump-approved cuts to Medicaid and different well being packages and lengthen the improved pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies which might be scheduled to run out on the finish of the 12 months – they aren’t proposing to spend $1.5 trillion on undocumented immigrants. Undocumented individuals are not eligible for both Obamacare subsidies or federal Medicaid insurance coverage protection (hospitals are required to supply folks with emergency care no matter immigration standing or capability to pay).
The Committee for a Accountable Federal Finances, a fiscal watchdog group, estimated that the spending proposal the Democrats launched in September would add $1.5 trillion to the debt over the subsequent decade. However that determine isn’t about undocumented folks specifically. And the White Home itself has claimed that Democrats are proposing to spend about $193 billion – a lot lower than Trump’s “$1.5 trillion” – on well being look after “unlawful immigrants and different non-citizens,” the emphasis ours. The White Home printed an itemized checklist that makes clear that even by its personal contested calculations, the vast majority of even that smaller sum could be for these “different non-citizens” who’re within the US legally.
