The Trump Administration is remaining firm on pushing back against the Democrats’ far-left spending demands, and as part of that resistance has continued a full-court press in the media, such as a press conference that Vice President JD Vance gave on Wednesday, October 1, in which he commented on the reality of what Democrats are demanding and how they are lying about it.
Beginning his comments, which came during the Wednesday White House press briefing, VP Vance argued that the current Democratic claims about what is going on with healthcare are just provably false, saying, “Democrats say that they care a lot about lowering health care costs, and yet, when the President took historic action to work with the drug companies to lower prescription drug prices, the Democrats did nothing to help us.”
Continuing, VP Vance called out the Democrats for putting illegal aliens first and Americans last by creating a shutdown situation over wanting funding that could go to healthcare for illegal aliens, saying, “In fact, we would have loved to have the Democrats helping us, but they didn’t. They talk about doing something they don’t actually do the hard work of making it happen. What they have done instead is to shut down the government because we won’t give billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens. That is what is actually happened to the American people who are watching.”
Adding yet further to that, VP Vance noted that the far-left wing of the Democratic Party was clearly in control and pushing “ridiculous” demands. He said, “The reason your government is shut down at this very minute is because, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans and even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the Chuck Schumer, AOC wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us, ‘We will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal aliens.’ That’s a ridiculous proposition.”
A bit later in his monologue, Vance noted that while policy disagreements are one thing, demanding taxpayers pay for the healthcare of illegal aliens, saying, “It’s one thing to say that we should solve the health care crisis for Americans. It’s another thing to say that we’re going to shut down the government unless we give the Democrats every single thing that they want, which is, as Karoline said, includes giving billions of dollars of taxpayer funding for health care for illegal migrants. That’s ridiculous.”
And, skewering them for trying to hold Americans hostage over the matter of whether illegal aliens will get taxpayer-funded healthcare, VP Vance said, “You don’t have policy disagreements that serve as the basis for a government shutdown . . . what you don’t do is say, unless you do exactly what we want to do as congressional Democrats, we’re taking hostage, and the hostage, it turns out, is critical, essential services that the American people need.”
And, explaining how Americans are being harmed and put last with the Democrats remaining staunchly behind their radical spending demands, VP Vance said, “Our troops are not getting paid starting today because of the Chuck Schumer wing of the Democratic Party. We have people who require who require food assistance, low-income Americans who require food assistance, who will not get it unless we reopen the government. Thanks to Chuck Schumer and his wing of the Democratic Party, we have flood insurance as we start hurricane season in the southeastern part of our country, that flood insurance is going to disappear because of Chuck Schumer.”
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Returning to the matter of the Democrats wanting healthcare funding for illegal aliens and being willing to cause chaos because of it, Vance then said, “Why did the Democrats shut down the government . . . they want to give health care benefits to illegal aliens. That is true. They gave us legislative text that would have undone us, cutting off health care benefits for illegal aliens. That’s one of the things that they asked for.”
And, noting that Schumer is also worried about his political position, Vance explained, “But the reality here, and let’s be honest about the politics, is that Chuck Schumer is terrified she’s going to get a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The reason why the American people’s government is shut down.”
Watch Vance here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video