{"id":60063,"date":"2025-07-06T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60063"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:33:06","slug":"a-very-good-question-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60063","title":{"rendered":"A Very Good Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Legal Insurrection<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n

If Illegals Aren\u2019t Receiving Federal Medicaid Benefits, Why Are Blue States Suing to Protect Their Data?<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Democrats have consistently maintained that while some illegal immigrants receive state-level Medicaid benefits, they do not receive federal Medicaid benefits. If that\u2019s true, then why are Democratic attorneys general from blue states suing the federal government to prevent Medicaid data from being used for immigration enforcement? Are they genuinely concerned about potential violations of privacy laws, or more likely, are they attempting to protect those undocumented immigrants who may, in fact, be enrolled in federal Medicaid programs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, 20 blue states have filed a lawsuit<\/a> in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that the Trump administration \u201cviolated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials last month.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the plaintiffs in the case are Illinois, New York, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, along with fifteen other states. Defendants include Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article quotes an article at Hot Air:<\/p>\n

HotAir\u2019s David Strom states<\/a> it plainly:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats are playing a verbal shell game, pointing to federal law to say that Medicaid dollars can\u2019t legally go to illegal aliens, so there is no money to be saved by cutting those funds off. At the same time, they are suing to hide the legal status of recipients to prevent them from facing ICE deportations\u2013in other words, they are illegally spending Medicaid dollars for illegals and want to hide them from the feds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The narratives don\u2019t have to be consistent, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you were to sit down and analyze what Democrats say to make their arguments on various issues, you would see narrative fails like this all the time. But because the issues are discussed in different contexts, the contradictions don\u2019t stand out to many people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Viewed from another perspective, if Medicaid benefits for undocumented immigrants are truly only a state issue, then why did this become a matter for the Senate Parliamentarian during consideration of a major federal spending bill? And why was it included in the Senate\u2019s vote-a-rama on Monday, as I discussed here<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Strom concludes, \u201cThe story is always changing to fit the desired result.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t have to make sense. Because they\u2019re Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever happens with this lawsuit, deportations of illegal criminals will save American taxpayers money.<\/p>\n

As Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once stated, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Legal Insurrection posted the following headline: If Illegals Aren\u2019t Receiving Federal Medicaid Benefits, Why Are Blue States Suing to Protect Their Data? The article reports: Democrats have consistently maintained that while some illegal immigrants receive state-level Medicaid benefits, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16870,1583,17908,3867,18240,18241],"class_list":["post-60063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-strom","tag-hot-air","tag-immigration-and-customes-enforcement-ice","tag-legal-insurrection","tag-medicaid-benefits-to-illegal-aliens","tag-milton-friendman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60069,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60063\/revisions\/60069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}