SCOTT JENNINGS: Democrats, and a few Republicans, I feel, possibly many Republicans, I consider, will in the end negotiate a continuation of those subsidies. Nobody needs well being care premiums to go up. Although, I’d be aware the political guide Alex Castellanos is just not all that inexpensive, because it seems.
But the opposite debate about who’s going to get taxpayer funded Medicaid on this nation, that’s what the memes are about. That’s what the battle is about. Democrats need to make it about this subsidy challenge. They don’t run out to the tip of the yr, by the way in which. But the actual factor is that they filed laws to repeal what the Republicans did this summer time.
And so these two points have been conflated. But the actual fact is, they don’t simply need the subsidies. They need different issues. And the president is drawing consideration to it, I feel, in a reasonably intelligent approach. We simply had a nationwide emergency about telling jokes. I don’t know why folks can’t take a joke.
ABBY PHILLIP: Medicaid continues to be not going to unlawful immigrants, Scott.
JENNINGS: It is. It actually does.
PHILLIP: It’s not.
JENNINGS: It actually does. It does in a number of blue states.
PHILLIP: It’s not. Scott, no, it’s not.
JENNINGS: It actually does.
PHILLIP: Listen, the a part of the invoice that offers with the cash that goes to states, it doesn’t say something about their immigration coverage. So pink state or blue state, these states are getting much less cash from the federal authorities. That nonetheless must be handled. And that has nothing to do with immigration.
And once more, Medicaid doesn’t go to undocumented immigrants. SNAP doesn’t go to undocumented immigrants. You know, CHIP doesn’t go to undocumented immigrants.
JENNINGS: It completely does.
PHILLIP: I don’t know. I imply, Scott, show me mistaken.
JENNINGS: How many blue states —
PHILLIP: Show me the legislation.
JENNINGS: How many what number of blue states? Mike Johnson confirmed it in a huge poster on Friday.
PHILLIP: Scott, present me the U.S. code the place it says that they’re allowed to get Medicaid funding. JENNINGS: Where is it?
JENNINGS: I’ll present it on social media.
PHILLIP: It doesn’t exist. In truth, the legislation says precisely the other. So it’s —
JENNINGS: They’re attempting to repeal what the Republicans did this summer time.
PHILLIP: Scott, that could be a lie, OK?
JENNINGS: It is just not.
PHILLIP: Now, you would possibly need to dispute whether or not or not states ought to get reimbursed from the federal — or ought to get federal {dollars} for Medicaid on the ranges that they bought it earlier than. That’s a distinct challenge. But that’s not a difficulty that’s really tied to immigration and you understand it.