Shutdown Exposes Democrats’ True Love: Illegal Aliens

It’s hard to believe, but true: Democrats love illegal aliens more than Big Government itself.

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a “clean” continuing resolution on Sept. 19 on a vote of 217-212. It would have kept the federal government open through Nov. 21, well past fiscal year 2025’s conclusion on Sept. 30.

Republicans performed their responsibility to finance Uncle Sam’s activities, from Social Security to the Secret Service. They voted “yea” by a 216-2 margin, with 99.1% of Republicans present agreeing to keep the federal doors open.

House Democrats, however, voted almost unanimously “nay”—1-to-210. Less than 0.5% chose to maintain federal services.

Regarding the House bill, 43 of 45 Republican senators who voted (95.5%) voted “Yea.” (Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Kentucky’s Rand Paul demurred.) Within the Senate Democrat Caucus, only 1 of 47 (Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman), or 2.1%, voted to keep federal functions going. (Eight Republicans didn’t vote, but their potential “yeas” would not have yielded the 60 required for passage.)

All told, Democrats killed that continuing resolution 44-48. They also torpedoed three subsequent GOP bids to end the minority party’s intransigence. So, the Schumer Shutdown roars on.

Democrats could have kept their beloved Big Government chugging along, with tax dollars cascading into every marble palace in Washington, D.C. Federal salaries would sustain park rangers at the base of the Grand Canyon and NASA’s astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Veterans Affairs doctors would heal war wounds, just as Foreign Service officers would advance American diplomacy at U.S. Embassies worldwide. Washington’s printers would spew checks for soybean subsidies, highway construction, endangered species, law enforcement, Head Start, and atomic weapons.

Democrats could have savored this and much more that Big Government undertakes. Their sacred programs, extravagant initiatives, and lavish freebies would have flowed like Ol’ Man River.

But Democrats said, “Hell, no!” to all of this because they love something even more than Big Government itself: Illegal aliens. Once merely romantic, this passion inches toward the erotic. 

As White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained Thursday via the social media platform X, Republicans justifiably scuttled a Democrat measure that “intentionally allows for Medicaid to go to those improperly granted asylum and parole during Joe Biden’s illegal alien invasion.”

“It’s not something that we made up,” Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Wednesday. “It’s not a talking point. It is in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government.”

Sure enough, page 56 of S. 2882, Sen. Patty Murray’s continuing resolution, would have triggered “Repeal of health subtitle changes”; namely, “Subtitle B of Title VII” of the One Big, Beautiful Bill. The legislation from Murray, D-Wash., would have repealed six GOP reforms that denied government health care to illegals.

Among other things, Democrats’ attempted wet kiss for their illegal-alien paramours would have:

• Renewed Medicare benefits for illegal aliens and foreign citizens (10-year cost: $5.1 billion)   

• Revived Medicaid assistance to same ($6.2 billion)

• Restored bonuses for taxpayer-financed emergency care ($28.2 billion)

• Resurrected Obamacare subsidies ($91.4 billion)

If enacted, this Democrat blueprint would have handed illegal aliens and foreigners $192.8 billion in “free” taxpayer-funded health care. And since Republicans are blockading this nearly $200 billion, decade-long raid on the Treasury, Democrats repeatedly have voted to deny American citizens basic public services. 

And that’s how the Schumer Shutdown was born.

Amid this fiscal commotion, the dinosaur media propagate the lie that Schumer and fellow New York Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are “moderates” who are defending the political center from the Democrat Party’s left-wing base.

In fact, Schumer and Jeffries are the Democrat Party’s left-wing base.

According to the Institute for Legislative Analysis’ 2024 Limited Government Ratings, stalwart socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., earned 13.13% out of 100%. Schumer, 10.10%—to the left of Sanders! (By contrast, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., scored 68.37%.)

In the House, Jeffries rated 5.96%. That was less left than fellow New Yorker and socialist pin-up Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 3.81% rating, but light years from Louisianan and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s 81.74%. (Meanwhile, AOC is not just the House’s socialist North Star. The restless lawmaker from New York City’s Queens challenged Trump: “My office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.” AOC big-footed her boss!)

Schumer and Jeffries might have cooler heads than their pyromaniacal colleagues. Also, as official leaders of the opposition, they are willing, or at least duty-bound, to meet with President Donald Trump—as they did Monday. In contrast, many Democrats would step right over Trump if he fell to the floor.

Don’t let the Democrats’ media bodyguards fool you: If Schumer and Jeffries are moderates, Mel Brooks is Catholic.

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