Why are MAGAts Lying About Dems’ Motives For Refusing to Support the Continuing Resolution?

You may have heard from your favorite MAGA mouthpeice that Dem’s have refused to vote for their Continuing Resolution – thus shutting down the FedGov – because we want to ‘spend billions of dollars for free healthcare for illegal aliens‘ – or even over one trillion according to the House Appropriations statement. Well, that’s a crock of shit, obviously. But why tell such an obvious and blatant lie? And what is the factual basis that MAGAts point to when pressed by the media to support that allegation?

First, WHY? What is the possible motivation to make such an outrageous lie the basis of their whole pitch to Americans that Dems are wholly responsible for the shutdown and why we are doing it?

The answer is quite simple, really: they don’t have any better argument that is based in reality. They know that Americans overwhelmingly support the ACA (Obamacare) subsidies for their private healthcare plans (a bit over 70% support, which is a rare point of bi-partisan agreement in American politics), and restoring cuts made in Trump’s Big Muderous Bill are the main point of this impasse. They know they are definitely on the back foot in public opinion, and they haven’t any good reason to give for those cuts and those to Medicare/Medicaid. Are they really going go into battle arguing that wealthy people and corporations desperately need their tax subsidies? I think not. So, they have to lie.

Now, we know why they are lying, what shred of evidence to they point to when trying to support their ‘free heathcare for illegals’ lie? Here is the memo they are pointing to. There is a farago of other lies and distortions mixed in for spice, but ‘free healthcare for illegals’ is always the topline and what they lead with in talking points.

The provision they are hanging this mega-ton of bullshit on is the provision that makes lawfully present refugees eligible for the Obamacare exchange subsidies. First, Obamacare subsidies are not ‘free healthcare’. Second, those people are not ‘illegal or undocumented aliens’; they are lawfully present in the US. There is a farago of other lies and distortions mixed in, of course, but they really don’t amount to much. The MAGAts know what riles their base to stand behind them, and they are sticking with this big lie.

So, is it – in any sense – true? Not remotely. For a full answer we turn to a place where they still practice real journalism: the BBC. NPR also debunks the lie – one reason they are on the MAGA’s chopping block. Undocumented immigrants are simply not eligible for ACA exchange subsidies. Period. And nothing Jefferies and Schummer are proposing changes that. This is all about restoring the cuts made earlier this year for Trump’s Big Murderous Bill for American citizens and, quite incidentally, legally present aliens.

So, now you know. Go forth and rhetorically slap down said bullshit.