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They say that we're making this up, this illegal aliens receiving taxpayer benefits. It's a talking point. They said everybody can remember, I think back to 2020 in the presidential debate. For all the candidates on the Democrat side, raise your hand, they said on the stage if you believe that illegal aliens should receive health care paid for by American taxpayers. Every single one of them raised their hand to great applause in the audience from the Democrats who were there. Now. What did they do? Did they follow through on that promise? Ye, they absolutely did. Joe Biden used executive orders and he expanded benefits, health care to illegal aliens.
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In his four year term.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big stories for you. Democrats and the media join hands yet again to lie and claim that no federal dollars are going to illegal immigrants. Well, I'm going to show you how they're lying to you. And we've got the receipts to back it up. Also going after Donald Trump saying he's crazy to execute a government shutdown, trying to claim this is Trump's fault. We all know it's the Schumer shutdown and we'll give you the facts to fight back on that as well. But before I get to that, I want to talk to you about my friends at Kirk Elliott Precious Metals. Two days ago I got my new order of silver. Now I'm investing in silver right now because the pricing on it is amaz amazing. And the upside, well, it's real. I actually have a 100 ounce silver bar. It is actually really cool. It's really heavy because it's 100 ounces. 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The answer is yes. That's one way that they're funneling money to illegal immigrant care. Number two, improper state claims. California, for example, their audit force repayment of 52.7 million. 52.7 million that was wrongfully billed to the federal government. That is just one state, one audit. And it's likely there's a lot more out there. Now, these are people that are, quote, not eligible for getting money. Well, the receipts tell the truth. The receipts don't lie. The money is clearly going to illegal immigrants in the hospital. So if you want to know why the Democrats decide to shut down the government, number one, it was to cover Chuck Schumer's AWS against aoc. Number two, the Democrat demands tell you everything. This is what they demanded to, quote, avoid a government shutdown. Okay, this is their list, not mine. Free health care for illegals. Number one, restore funding for their propaganda machines. What do I mean by that? Restore money for the National Public Radio and for public broadcasting services. Why would the Democrats shut down the government demanding that the only way we keep it open is if we restore the NPR and PBS funding. I'll tell you exactly why. Because those are two of the state sponsored media arms. No different than China or Russia or South Korea putting out propaganda on behalf of the Democratic Party and attacking the Republican Party. So they desperately need NPR and PBS to be propped back up because otherwise they lose their juice, they lose their influence. They also want to revoke. Listen carefully. Rural hospital funding. Why would the Democratic Party want to revoke rural hospital funding? I'll tell you exactly why. Because they want the money to go to illegal immigrants in their big sanctuary cities and major states. They don't care about rural America. They don't care about the farmers. They don't care about flyover country. They say, the hell with you guys. We want the money in New York City. We want the money in Baltimore. We went the money in Detroit. Right. We want the money in San Francisco and la. We don't want the money in rural America for hospitals. We don't care about actual hardworking Americans minding their own business with their families on their 10 acres. They also demand it to avoid a government shutdown that we have massive expenditures that are reinstated for climate and diversity, equity and inclusion. DEI funding specifically, not for Americans. You ready for this? Here's the best part. Here's the kicker for foreign nations. So they want your tax hours to go to stop climate change in foreign nations. And they want your tax hours to go for diversity, equity, inclusion, advocacy, training. Foreign nations, not America, foreign nations. And then finally, I thought Obamacare was going to be amazing, right? Everybody was going to have health care. You got to keep your doctor if you liked your doctor. Remember that line, you got to keep your plan if you like your plan. Yeah, that was a lie. Well, what are they saying now? Well, one of their demands to avoid the government shutdown was to continue Biden's Obamacare subsidies. Now we had an election that just took place and in the election all of these things were on the ballot. Free health care for illegals. There was a candidate that wanted it, advocated for it and did it. Joe Biden. Then that candidate turned into Kamala Harris and guess what? She was in favor of it too. The other guy, Donald Trump, said no. There was a party and a person, Kamala Harris. It was like, we're going to keep funding these state sponsored media and NPR and pbs. And there was another guy named Donald Trump said, no, we're going to cut it. There was a man that was advocating for rural areas and hospitals and that would be Donald Trump. There was the other Democrats said, screw you guys. Like it was on the ballot, folks. Climate di funding doge is a Great example of that for four nations. Donald Trump ran on saying, no, that's a terrible thing. We're not doing it. Democrats said, no, we want to send more of our money overseas to foreign nations. For DEI woke climate change. And again, the other party, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, their Obamacare subsidies were what they ran on. The American people said, we don't want it. And they voted for who? Donald Trump. All of the things that they're shutting the government down over, their biggest issues are things that were on the ballot. Okay? It just was. It was on the ballot, folks. Every single bit of it was on the ballot.