California Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at the State of the State address in Sacramento, CA, Mar 8, 2022. (Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock)
‘Schumer Shutdown’ Exposes California’s Healthcare Budget Gimmicks For Illegal Immigrants
State Senator Sasha Renée Pérez falsely claims that illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid
By Megan Barth, October 1, 2025 4:20 pm
The U.S. government has shutdown due to a budget impasse between Republicans and Democrats over funding Medicaid for an estimated 1.4 illegal immigrants enrolled on the taxpayer funded program.
Democrats have tried to convince Americans that illegal immigrants cannot receive federal healthcare benefits, yet there are many states, like California, who have drafted their own policies and used loopholes to provide Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants.
“California is one of eight states that has expanded their Medicaid programs to provide taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens. While federal law currently prohibits federal Medicaid funding from going to illegal aliens, with the exception of emergency services, recent watchdog reports expose how federal taxpayers pick up the tab for these state expansions of Medicaid. For instance, California is financing its expansion of Medicaid to illegal aliens by implementing a budget gimmick to draw down increased federal funding, placing American taxpayers on the hook for the free health care California is giving to illegal aliens,” according to a report by the Congressional Budget Committee.
Senator Sasha Renée Pérez (CA-25) falsely claimed that illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid, prompting a response, ‘Are you the dumbest Senator to ever live?”
In January, seemingly unknown to Senator Pérez, California became the first state to expand Medicaid to include all illegal immigrants residing in the state, flooding the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, with as many as 700,000 illegal immigrants despite a record $68 billion state budget deficit.
The Globe has covered this boondoggle extensively with recent reports showing Medi-Cal is insolvent–costing taxpayers $23 billion over 2 years, forcing Newsom to get both an emergency loan and a bailout, Rep. Kevin Kiley just confirmed.
Despite these facts and figures, Rep. Rho Khanna claims that Medicaid funding for illegals is “just a small part” of the overall expense. Yet, estimates show that California received a jaw dropping $4 billion subsidy from the federal government to pay for illegal immigrants to have “free” healthcare.
When Rep. Maxine Waters was questioned about the Democrats’ attempts to provide “free healthcare” to illegal immigrants during the budget battle, she quipped, “we want healthcare for everybody.”
If healthcare is “free” as Democrats claim, why is Medi-Cal insolvent after taxpayers spent $23 billion? Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to fix the U.S. healthcare system?
When Democrats tell the American people that this budget battle is over their fight to “save healthcare,” they are simply trying to save their failed and expensive healthcare policy known as Obamacare and are fighting to save federal subsidies to provide “free” healthcare to illegal immigrants, healthcare that cost U.S. taxpayers tens-of-billions of dollars.
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Oh good, now with this high-profile govt shutdown process Americans understand they are paying BIG TIME for that genius CA Gov Gavin Newsom’s grandiose gesture of adding all the CA illegals to Medi-Cal so they can receive free health care, better even than legal CA citizens? Excellent. And now that they understand it I hope they are FURIOUS about it —- furious at Gavin Newsom, that is, for throwing Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars straight into the dumpster and setting it all on fire, the way he does with oh so many things he “champions” to benefit HIMSELF, and only himself, politically.
#Not$1.00
This is a similar pattern to the gerrymandering debate. Democrats initially made the false claim that Democracy was at stake, People then researched and saw that the reality was every Democrat state was heavily gerrymandered already. Now voters have learned Democrats were providing healthcare to illegals all along.
It’s a disaster for Democrats,
Senator Sasha Renée Pérez (CA-25) falsely claimed that illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid, prompting a response, ‘Are you the dumbest Senator to ever live?”
She’s not dumb. She’s just doing what Dems do best – gaslighting to manipulate voters. KG and the Globe have been documenting their process of turning Medi-Cal into providing healthcare for illegals for years:
“Undocumented immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 will be eligible for Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for the poor, disabled, and now for those living in the country and state illegally.”
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/gavin-newsoms-california-budget-undocumented-immigrants-will-get-health-care-coverage/
Nothing for Illegals……..NOTHING…….except deportation!
Just to to ANY hospital emergency room and you’ll see the “undocumented’s” primary care physician waiting room…
Think those hospitals just write off the cost of that treatment???
NOPE….
Fedbucks to the Medi-Cal program to the hospitals (paid on a fraction of the billed cost) and why the healthcare delivery system is so broken in California….
But the Dems get generations of grateful voters via “motor voter” and voting season and cheat, er, vote-by-mail, so don’t worry about it….
I appreciate all that Democrats do by shear stupidity and selfishness which results in massive bureaucratic crime scenes and their exposure to immediate arrest and prosecution.
Thank you Megan! Stop on story and Yes, Sasha Renée Pérez is the stupidest Senator to ever live. Communist dumbass thru and thru!