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I read every single word of the Democrats’ Continuing Resolution and I have concluded the Democrats are absolutely pushing for Federal Government Health Benefits for Illegal Immigrants (and I can tell you why it is so tricky).Let’s start with the right name for this document, which I don’t think I have heard once yet in the countless social media posts/news summaries from every major source of every political persuasion… this is the DeLauro/Murray (Democratic) Continuing Resolution (“CR”) and it is essentially a counter-proposal to the “clean” Continuing Resolution the Republicans proposed, and this response is anything but clean and its written in such a way that it modifies a lot of other documents without spelling it out in the short 68 pages of the document itself. That’s part of the reason I think so many people are unaware of what is actually in it…sure, you can read 68 pages in 20 minutes if you’re fast, 120 minutes if you’re slow, but you need to constantly go and reference other documents so quintuple that (hence the 2:30 am post). Let me hit you with the punch line: there were provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill Act, that was of course passed into law, that this CR seeks to repeal in several different ways, which should terrify you. I don’t care if you’re a Republican, Democrat, or Independent like myself…the very notion that having a large enough minority to threaten a filibuster would inspire any party to go and write a Bill (which would later be intended to be passed into law of course) that undoes laws the minority doesn’t like is definitely not what the founders intended. But I digress…The Big Beautiful Bill (or Big Ugly Bill, depending on your preference, which matters not to me) very famously dealt with some issues of fraud/waste/abuse by adding qualifiers for MedicAid eligibility. For instance, if you’re an able-bodied adult of working age, you need to work or volunteer, a provision largely unpopular amongst able-bodied adults of working age that don’t work and like their free healthcare. 80 hour weeks might be common for me and many of my friends, but that’s too many hours per month for much of the electorate it would seem. By the way, there are lots of ways to be exempt. Maybe it isn’t perfect but at the end of the day there would be limited exceptions to the general rule that those in need would be taken care of as intended. Under the CR from the Democrats, willfully unemployed adults would go back to qualifying for Medicaid, which in my view should be the biggest problem here, but that’s not where the Bill stops. It also seeks to reverse all of the eligibility checks that were implemented, along with limitations on immigrant coverage that narrowed eligibility to citizens and lawful permanent residents (basically).When you hear things like “but the law says Medicaid can’t cover illegal aliens”, which is true by the way, you’re not being told the whole truth. There are around 1.4 Million illegal immigrants that were on Medicaid prior to the BBB being passed (by some estimates), and they were all immediately removed. I personally know more than half a dozen illegal immigrants whose Federal Government healthcare benefits evaporated the next day, which was surprising to me until I figured out what was happening. Essentially, Medicaid coverage allowed for non-resident, non-citizens, but also excluded illegal immigrants BUT the program had eliminated any eligibility checks in the process and as it turns out there’s no process or mechanism within our healthcare systems to check for whether an immigrant is legally in the country or not. Are you an otherwise law-abiding and productive immigrant that simply overstayed a Visa by a day? You’re ineligible, but no one would know. The BBB sought to fix that by making the eligibility requirement either permanent residency or citizenship. The Democrats’ CR absolutely, in no uncertain terms, eliminates all of the eligibility checks and qualifiers for Medicaid that will open the door to millions of former Medicaid recipients including both able-bodied Americans of working age that (choose, in many or most cases) not to work (or refuse to do volunteer work) as well as immigrants that have not yet been awarded permanent residency (or been awarded citizenship).It’s a lot, I know, and it sucks. Here’s a link to the document by the way, straight from the Democrats on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee members who wrote it;https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/cr0917h.PDFDoes the Democrats’ CR proposal state, within its text, directly that there will be coverage for illegal immigrants? Absolutely not. Doesn’t even contain the words “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigrants” or at least I never noticed either. It does, however, undo a law that was passed by our elected officials, in the majority, that eliminated coverage for millions of people including many illegal immigrants that would qualify once again.