Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the majority leader of the Congress, said Sunday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants to take money slated for rural healthcare and use it instead to provide healthcare for illegals.
Scalise told Fox News’s Trey Gowdy that Schumer is
gutting rural hospital funding while they talk about health care. They gut rural hospital funding to give taxpayer funding, for example, to illegals. That’s part of what is in Chuck Schumer’s bill. So it shows you what their priority is. They don’t care if our troops don’t get their paychecks, but they surely want taxpayer funding for illegals. It’s in Chuck Schumer’s bill.
The Big Beautiful Bill passed earlier this year created a $50-billion fund to stabilize hospitals and medical providers in remote areas. Sen. Schumer and his Democrat allies are insisting that that reform and others be completely eliminated and healthcare for illegals reinstated.
The government shutdown, now two weeks in, will not end until one side gets to 60 votes in the Senate. We shall see.
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