00:00We all understand that Democrats and Republicans have policy disagreements.
00:03Democrats want to do things.
00:05Look, when Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were in here a couple of days ago,
00:08they made some suggestions that the president was more than happy to say,
00:12yes, let's sit down and talk about how we can solve the health care crisis
00:16that we inherited from the Biden administration.
00:18But it's one thing to say that we should solve the health care crisis for Americans.
00:22It's another thing to say that we're going to shut down the government
00:25unless we give the Democrats every single thing that they want,
00:28which, as Caroline says, includes giving billions of dollars of taxpayer funding
00:33for health care for illegal migrants.
00:35That's ridiculous.
00:36You don't have policy disagreements that serve as the basis for a government shutdown.
00:41Let's have the conversation about how to fix American health care,
00:44about how to make health care more accessible.
00:46As the president showed, he's more than willing to act on behalf of the American people
00:50for this very reason.
00:52What you don't do is say, unless you do exactly what we want to do as congressional Democrats,
00:58we're taken hostage.
00:59And the hostage, it turns out, is critical, essential services that the American people need.
01:04Caroline talked about some of it.
01:06Let me talk about some more.
01:07Our troops are not getting paid starting today because of the Chuck Schumer wing of the Democratic Party.
01:13We have people who require food assistance, low-income Americans who require food assistance,
01:19who will not get it unless we reopen the government,
01:23thanks to Chuck Schumer and his wing of the Democratic Party.
01:25We have flood insurance as we start hurricane season in the southeastern part of our country.
01:31That flood insurance is going to disappear because of Chuck Schumer and the far left of the Democratic Party.
01:37We need to reopen the government.
01:39Let's fix America's problems.
01:40Let's work together to solve them.
01:42But let's reopen the government before we have our negotiation about health care policy.
01:48That's what the American people demand, and that's certainly what the president of the United States wants.
01:51About illegal alien benefits, look, the text is very clear.
01:55And I even saw, I think it was George Stephanopoulos, in an interview with Mike Johnson,
01:59did a fact check that was totally rooted in baseless claims.
02:03It was basically Democrat propaganda.
02:05If you look at the legislative text that they gave us,
02:09they tried to turn on two separate provisions that would give health care benefits to illegal aliens.
02:14Number one, if you're an American citizen, you've been to a hospital in the last few years,
02:18you probably noticed that wait times are especially large,
02:20and very often somebody who's there in the emergency room waiting is an illegal alien,
02:25very often a person who can't even speak English.
02:27Why do those people get health care benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?
02:33The answer is a decision made by the Biden administration
02:36that the Trump administration working with congressional Republicans undid.
02:40We turned off that money spigot to health care funding for illegal aliens.
02:44The Democrats, in their legislative text, want to turn it back on.
02:47That's one thing.
02:48The second thing, Matt, is we all know that there are various ways
02:52in which the Biden administration waived away illegal immigration status.
02:57They gave parolees.
02:58They gave asylum claims to people who weren't really claiming asylum.
03:02And when they waved the magic wand of amnesty,
03:05giving millions of people legal status,
03:08even though they were in the country illegally,
03:10they also gave those people access to health care benefits.
03:14So what the Democrats are engaging in is a sleight of hand.
03:16They're saying, no, no, no, those weren't illegal aliens who were getting health care benefits,
03:20even though everybody knows they were in the country illegally.
03:25It's a lie told by the Democrats
03:27that they're not trying to give health care benefits to illegal aliens.
03:29It's a lie that is obviously untrue if you just look at the text that they gave us.
03:34And all you have to do is understand that this is about who benefits.
03:39We think the American people's government ought to benefit American citizens.
03:43The Democrats are willing to shut it down to benefit illegal aliens.
03:46The contrast couldn't be more clear.
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