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CNN’s conservative firebrand Scott Jennings continued his weekly chore of wrecking Democrat pundits this week by revealing the truth about Medicaid cuts in the recently passed Big, Beautiful Bill amid leftist and RINO lies about the subject.
Discussing Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) saying the bill’s cuts to Medicaid would result in a political disaster for the GOP, Jennings said he doesn’t think it’s “unpopular to try to reform an entitlement program to save it for the people who need it, to keep illegal aliens from getting welfare benefits they shouldn’t be getting” or “to encourage people to go to work.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): “Federal law prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits.”
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Scott Jennings: “Then why are 1.4 million on it?”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY): "That‘s a figment of your imagination."
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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) chimed in, claiming, “None of that is true. Federal law prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits.”
Jennings replied, “Then why are 1.4 million on it?”
Torres suggested the figure is a figment of Jennings’ imagination, and the CNN commentator noted the data was cited directly from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget.
The Democrat congressman then alleged the 1.4 million statistic “is not” in CBO documents, with Jennings in return calling him a liar.
After Torres said it’s “political suicide” for Republicans to make cuts to Medicaid, Jennings said it’s actually political suicide for a member of Congress to go on television and lie about the CBO data.
CNN anchor Abby Phillip commented next, again echoing the narrative that “federal law prohibits undocumented people from getting Medicaid,” and admitted after Jennings insisted, “But, they’re on it,” that the illegals who are enrolled were put there by states that allow “everyone” access to the benefit program.
In another segment, Jennings again countered Senator Tillis’ allegation that the cuts are bad for the GOP.
“There’s nothing politically devastating about trying to bar 1.4 million illegal aliens from getting welfare,” he explained. “There’s nothing politically devastating about encouraging 4.8 million people….who choose not to work….to try to work a little in order to get government benefits,” he said.
Scott Jennings didn’t wait for introductions before lighting a fuse on CNN’s panel.
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He went directly after Senator Thom Tillis, dismissing his criticism of the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill as not just wrong, but politically clueless.
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The CNN commentator later explained to Axios reporter Alex Thompson that if Democrats are “going to go all in on this hysteria campaign” and support “giving Medicaid to illegal aliens and people who won’t work or choose not to work” during the upcoming midterm elections, then Republicans ought to counter the talking point with facts supporting the cuts.
It didn’t take long for the tension to spike.
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Axios reporter Alex Thompson zeroed in on what he thought was a potential vulnerability: the bill’s Medicaid changes wouldn’t kick in until after the midterms.
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) said the GOP is portraying hard-working families as “deadbeats” by pointing out that millions of Medicaid recipients do not work, and Jennings pointed out he was “conflating two populations” in those who have jobs and receive Medicaid and those who choose not to work but get the benefits.
“So there is a population that chooses not to work that maybe should try a little. And the people you cite, are not going to lose their benefits,” Jennings stated.
If Jennings was spoiling for a fight, he got it from Democrat Congressman Glenn Ivey of Maryland.
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Ivey slammed Republicans for what he claimed was painting working-class families as lazy freeloaders at a time when many are barely scraping by.
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New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro accused the GOP of becoming “the party of taking things away from people,” and Jennings countered by saying Democrats purposely expanded government benefit programs beyond their intended uses before now crying that Republicans are trying to take things away from people.
He continued to note that Obamacare “exploded premiums and has vastly expanded the welfare state.”
But the conversation was just warming up.
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New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro took a swing at the Republicans’ messaging problem, saying they were boxing themselves in as the “party of taking things away.”
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Garcia-Navarro said most Americans believe there “should be a basic ability to go to a hospital and get some care,” and Jennings agreed with the caveat that “most people also believe that people should not be able to sit and do nothing and receive government benefits, or be in the country illegally and receive government benefits.”
He added, “The Republican ethos is encouraging work. The Democratic ethos is encouraging government dependence. That’s the debate.”
By the end of the exchange, Garcia-Navarro was desperately trying to steer the conversation back to the basic promise that anyone should be able to get medical care.
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“But what I'm saying is most people do believe that there should be a basic ability to go to a hospital and get… pic.twitter.com/pX0UOdFXSo
The debate was a masterclass at countering tired leftist talking points and lies about the Medicaid cuts, which most citizens would support if the media told them the truth about the fact that illegals and those who refuse to at least try to work will be the ones affected, not the people the benefits were intended for.
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