00:00I think we have a microphone back there. If we could pass it around. Sir, go ahead.
00:05Mr. Vice President, I'm Richard Elliott with WSB TV here in Atlanta.
00:09You've heard the criticism from Democrats that making the Trump tax cuts permanent comes at a cost.
00:15Medicare, SNAP benefits, and other things like that.
00:19How would you answer some of those criticisms by the Democrats?
00:21Yeah, well, I appreciate that question. Look, there are a couple of responses to that criticism.
00:25First of all, the only people that we say should not get free government health care benefits are illegal aliens and those who refuse to try to even look for a job.
00:37It's very common sense. We want and look.
00:43We are going to bankrupt this country if we keep on giving the people's benefits, the people's Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who have no legal right to be in this country
00:54and never paid into the system to begin with.
00:57That is never the design of those programs is to give them to every person all over the world.
01:02They ought by right to belong to the American citizens who paid into those programs to begin with.
01:08And that's what we're fighting to make sure happens.
01:10And the second response I'd say to that is, look, we did a lot in this legislation.
01:19Brian worked on it.
01:21The other representatives here worked very hard on this to make sure that a lot of our rural hospitals are struggling because of some of the policies of the Biden administration.
01:29So what we did is we put a lot of resources and a lot of changes in regulations to make it possible for our rural hospitals to stay open despite what the Biden administration did to them for four years.
01:41So our policy is very simple.
01:43Whether you're in a big city or a small town, we're going to fight for your access to health care.
01:47Whether you're an American citizen who's been here for 70 years or an American citizen who's been here for two years, we're going to fight for your access to a government that serves you.
01:57But if you're an illegal alien, you do not deserve government-paid health care benefits.
02:03You need to get out of our country.
02:04And that's as simple as that.
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