ACA, immigrants and health care

the Federal government will close Early on Wednesday, in large part due to the debate between Republicans and Democrats on enhanced Obamacare subsidies and whether some immigrants should obtain these financial benefits.

Republicans claim that Democrats want to give health care to “illegal immigrants.”

Democrats, in turn, say it is a lie.

Democrats say they are only trying to restore the options for healthcare coverage that were available to migrants who had a “legal presence” in the United States before these options were canceled through the Tax Bill Donald Trump “one” beautiful “this year.

“They want to be illegal foreigners entering our country and obtaining huge health care at the cost of everyone, and we do not have that,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

“This is … the first reason they want to strike is to get health care for illegal immigrants,” Trump said.

Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R, said. For CNBC on Tuesday, “They want to restore the benefits funded by the taxpayers, and the benefits funded by the American taxpayers, to illegal foreigners.”

“We are not doing it,” Johnson added.

Democrats say Republicans are using the discourse about immigrants to distract from the fact that millions of Americans can see much higher health insurance premiums in the next year if no action is taken soon.

In the root of the conflict Distinctive tax credits improved Available for affordable prices of health care law, which is qualified for them.

These benefits have been carried out often, on which millions of Americans have relied since 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tax credits reduce the cost of health insurance premiums paid by individuals and families that buy health plans to exchange OBACARE, and expand the group of qualified beneficiaries.

“The improved tax credits have increased the amount of the already qualified financial assistance in the ACA market that were received in addition to registered intermediate income with an income of more than 400 % of the newly qualified federal poverty guidelines to obtain distinguished tax credits,” The researchers in the KFF Health Policy Research Group noted in a paper published on Tuesday.

The vast majority of people who have received these improved credits are American citizens, where the registration of the ACA plan has doubled from 11 million to more than 24 million since the reinforced tax credits were seized.

But before the Trump tax bill became a law, there was a small part of the beneficiaries of immigrants in the United States

Republican lawmakers in early September referred to the analysis of the Congress Budget Office, which they said was “1.2 million Illegal or non -citizen immigrants … who will not receive obamacare subsidies “as a result of the Trump bill.

The credits are scheduled to end at the end of 2025.

Democrats insist that any short -term decision to keep the federal government open at least seven other weeks includes extending subsidies. They do not want to wait to negotiate their extension until the Stopgap financing decision is passed.

The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y, during Squawk box“The interview, said,” Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayers dollars to provide medical coverage for unconventional individuals. “

“This is the law, and there is nothing in anything we suggested trying to change this law,” he said.

But Democrats want to restore tax credits to “present” migrants.

Among these immigrants with a temporary protected situation because of their claim that they are refugees or resort to persecution and other threats in their countries of origin.

Some Republicans, in addition to objecting to the restoration of tax credits to immigrants with legal existence, also argue that extending the premiums of all Americans will be very expensive for the federal government.

“It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. It cannot be affected,” MP Andy Harris, RMD,, NBC News said In July.

“This was a policy in the Kovid era.

It costs expanding support for a contract of an estimated $ 350 billion, according to Non -party Congress budget office.