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JD Vance says millions losing health insurance is 'immaterial'



Senate Republicans are searching for the votes to pass the “One Big,
Beautiful Bill” Act—which would lead roughly 17 million people to lose their
health insurance, cause millions more to have their food stamps yanked away,
and cause energy prices to skyrocket. Vice President JD Vance sought to get
GOPers on board by saying that all of those negative things are just
"immaterial" "minutiae" compared to the money the bill provides to help
Republicans deport immigrants.




 



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"The thing that will bankrupt this country more than any other policy is
flooding the country with illegal immigration and then giving those migrants
generous benefits. The OBBB fixes this problem. And therefore it must pass,"
Vance wrote in a post on X. "Everything else—the [Congressional Budget Office]
score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial
compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions."



Not only is Vance's statement absurd as he claims that actively harming the
poorest among us is not important, but his statement is also false.

The nonpartisan CBO has said immigrants actually help lower budget deficits.

"People are rightly noting that kicking millions off of Medicaid is not
'minutiae,' but the premise is wrong here too. Of the reasons to deport
undocumented immigrants, federal fiscal health is one of the worst ones. CBO
found they *lower* deficits by ~$1T over the next 10 years," Ernie Tedeschi,
director of the Budget Lab at Yale, wrote in a post on X. "That’s because
undocumented immigrants tend to pay taxes funding programs like Medicare &
Social Security (despite the stereotype, most undocumented immigrants who work
are above the table) but are often ineligible to receive benefits."

Democrats immediately pointed out the cruelty of Vance's tweet

"The 17 MILLION Americans you’re kicking off their health insurance aren’t
'minutiae,'" Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle, ranking member of the
House Budget Committee, wrote in a post on X. "Republicans are about to force
the largest loss of health care in American history — and they clearly couldn’t
care less about working families."

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) pointed to one of his constituents who is at risk of
losing his Medicaid coverage in his response to Vance's tweet.

"Ben, a disabled 14-year-old from Chesterfield, VA, isn’t 'minutiae,'" Warner
wrote. "His health insurance isn’t minutiae. His future isn’t minutiae.
Medicaid matters and I am fighting to protect it."




 



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As of press time, it is unclear whether Republicans have the votes to pass
this travesty of a bill—which hurts the poor and working class in order to give
tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the richest few.

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan
Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, have all either said they are
voting no or have “serious reservations” about the bill—enough to sink it if
all four vote no.

“As I've said from the beginning, I have a lot of serious reservations about
the bill,” Collins told reporters Tuesday morning. “I'm going to wait ‘til
we're done, know what direction we're going in, before announcing my position.”

Republicans tried to get Murkowski on board by making a specific carveout for
Alaska that would keep the state from losing its Medicaid and food stamp
benefits—while screwing everyone else.

There was also talk about trying to flip Paul to a yes by lowering the debt
ceiling increase from $5 trillion to $500 billion.

However, Erik Wasson of Bloomberg News reported that Senate Majority Leader
John Thune was confident he had a deal to get the bill to pass, though it’s
unclear what that deal entails.

As we’ve said repeatedly, never bet against Republicans caving to Dear
Leader’s will.

Editor’s note: This story was updated after the Senate passed the bill on
Tuesday.



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