{"id":1746374,"date":"2022-11-21T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746374"},"modified":"2022-11-21T07:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:47:58","slug":"dems-plead-with-biden-to-open-obamacare-to-daca-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-plead-with-biden-to-open-obamacare-to-daca-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Plead With Biden to Open ObamaCare to DACA Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-plead-with-biden-to-open-obamacare-to-daca-recipients%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746374&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1231342652-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House and Senate Democrats are pleading with President Joe Biden to open American taxpayer-subsidized Obamacare rolls to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/castro.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/DACA%20Letter%20-%20Castro,%20Jayapal,%20Booker.pdf\">letter<\/a> signed by 86 House and Senate Democrats, the lawmakers beg Biden\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind a federal regulation that would open Obamacare to DACA illegal aliens \u2014 paid for by American taxpayers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly encourage HHS to honor our country\u2019s promise of full integration and support of DACA recipients, including access to affordable health care through [Obamacare] by rescinding this regulation,\u201d the Democrats wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>It is crucial that the administration keep its commitment to expanding coverage for undocumented immigrants<\/strong>, including DACA recipients, and <strong>rescinding this harmful regulation will help deliver on that promise<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted by the group of Democrats, Biden did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/07\/09\/democrats-vow-free-health-care-daca-illegal-aliens\/\">promise<\/a> to open taxpayer-subsidized health insurance benefits to illegal aliens living in the United States while on the campaign trail in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, in his so-called \u201cUnity\u201d platform with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Biden vowed to allow\u00a0millions of illegal aliens eligible and enrolled in DACA to secure Obamacare plans.<\/p>\n<p>The platform also promised to allow all 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. to purchase healthcare coverage in the federal marketplace and more quickly allow low-income legal immigrants to get on Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported at the time, providing free health insurance benefits to all illegal aliens in the U.S. would cost American taxpayers anywhere between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/10\/study-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-would-cost-america-23-billion-a-year\/\">$23 billion<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/06\/28\/free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-could-cost-american-taxpayers-decade\/\">$66 billion<\/a>\u00a0every single year \u2014 a potentially up to $660 billion bill for taxpayers every decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Already, American taxpayers are forced to annually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/06\/27\/fact-check-u-s-taxpayers-pay-18-5b-a-year-for-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens\/\">subsidize<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0$18.5 billion in medical costs for illegal aliens, according to estimates by Chris Conover, formerly of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to urging Biden to open Obamacare for DACA illegal aliens, House and Senate Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/16\/democrats-plot-corporate-backed-daca-amnesty-in-lame-duck-congress-illegal-aliens-deserve-nothing-less\/\">currently lobbying<\/a> 10 Senate Republicans to join them in passing an amnesty for about 3.3 million illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the amnesty effort,\u00a0Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Pat Toomey (R-PA) reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/18\/report-senate-republicans-start-amnesty-talks-daca-illegal-aliens\/\">held meetings<\/a> with DACA illegal aliens last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Democrats are pleading with President Joe Biden to open American taxpayer-subsidized Obamacare rolls to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}