One of the reasons for the present shutdown of the government is that Democrats want to include authorization in the budget to fund health care for illegal aliens. President Trump stated that this health care, provided by taxpayers, “will destroy health care for everyone else in our country.”
Destroy is an exaggeration, but health care for illegals does impose a burden on taxpaying citizens. Currently, we spend $18.5 billion each year to subsidize illegals’ health care. The additional proposed spending could be as high as $66 billion.
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