‘The Mask Came Off’: Scott Jennings Lures CNN Panel Into Admitting They Want Americans to Fund Illegal Aliens’ Health Care
In a recent CNN panel discussion, pundit Scott Jennings prompted a revealing exchange among progressive guests regarding their stance on healthcare for undocumented immigrants. Jennings challenged the assertions of Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and former lawmaker Bakari Sellers, leading them to openly support providing free healthcare to illegal aliens, suggesting this position is held by Democrats. Abughazaleh insisted that “everyone deserves healthcare,” repeatedly affirming her belief that it should extend to all, including undocumented individuals.Jennings pressed for clarity, asking whether she supports illegal aliens receiving Medicaid, to which she affirmed her stance.
Sellers, attempting to reframe the conversation, referred to undocumented individuals as “undocumented citizens” and also confirmed support for their inclusion in Medicaid. Throughout the dialog,Jennings maintained a composed demeanor despite the emotional arguments presented by the other panelists. The exchange highlighted a notable divide in opinions on immigration and healthcare,with Jennings asserting that the positions taken by his guests lacked factual support and relied heavily on emotional appeals,illuminating the complexities surrounding healthcare funding for undocumented populations in the U.S.
CNN pundit Scott Jennings got a panel full of progressives to admit that they want free healthcare for illegal aliens, and it wasn’t particularly hard to do.
Jennings d the clip of the exchange Friday on X, noting to his followers that “the mask came off live on the air last night” with respect to Democrats and their priorities.
In the clip, Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and former Democratic state lawmaker Bakari Sellers made frantic and emotional arguments for their bizarre stance, and if anything, Jennings seemed to enjoy watching their arguments crumble in real time.
“Everyone deserves healthcare,” Abughazaleh insisted.
“Even illegals?” Jennings asked.
“Every single person in the world deserves healthcare,” Abughazaleh repeated.
“Just for the record, as a candidate, you’re for illegal aliens getting Medicaid?” Jennings asked one more time.
“I think everyone in the world deserves healthcare,” she reiterated.
While everyone can agree that all people on the planet should receive healthcare, that is a very different question from whether their governments, and particularly the American government, should pay for all people on the planet to receive healthcare.
Abughazaleh seems to have no issue with tens of millions of illegal aliens having their healthcare funded by everyday American taxpayers.
Seeing as her standard is “every single person in the world,” one must wonder if there is any ceiling to the number of foreigners she is willing to pack into the United States and keep alive with free taxpayer dollars.
In any case, the panel was baffled that anyone would consider such a position controversial.
Sellers was next at bat, insisting that he does not want to “kick 11 million people off of Medicaid.”
Jennings therefore asked, “Do you want illegal aliens on or not?”
After correcting Jennings with the phrase “undocumented citizens,” Sellers said that “the answer is yes.”
The mask came off live on the air last night.
The official position of Democrats is free health care for ILLEGAL immigrants, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
Tell your friends. pic.twitter.com/y1ycLINjwR
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 6, 2025
“Okay, we’re Democrats,” Jennings quipped, smiling knowingly into the camera.
Jennings then pressed Sellers on “what kind” of immigration the nation was built on.
As with many other flailing leftist arguments, Sellers rushed toward race, slavery, and the emotional cudgel those topics tend to contain.
“What kind? What kind of immigration was I brought here with? Because it was slavery. That’s not immigration?”
When Sellers failed simply to acknowledge that America was not built on illegal immigration, Jennings asked him, “You’re already in a hole, are you sure you don’t want to stop digging?”
The whole time, as Sellers devolved into emotion, Jennings did not take the bait and kept his cool.
In the process, the whole exchanged showed clearly the essence of leftist argumentation.
Their positions are not defensible with facts and common sense. That is why they must lean on emotional manipulation and contrived slogans.
The simple truth is that unfettered illegal immigration is bad for the country and her people.
From high taxes to rising housing costs, to traffic accidents and drug trafficking, much of the country, and the maybe three or four non-indoctrinated CNN viewers who saw that exchange on the air, know that from experience.
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