
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been known for his extreme policies. This time, the far-left governor announced that starting Jan. 1, more than 700,000 illegal immigrants will be able to qualify for free healthcare.
The state, which is deeply in debt by $68 billion due in part to a high unemployment rate and a decline in the real estate market, thinks it’s a good idea to hemorrhage even more money by allowing illegal immigrants aged 26 to 49 to qualify for free healthcare.
In 2019, Newsom signed legislation for ages 19 to 25 to receive these benefits. Children have qualified since 2014, when former California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill into law.
“In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage – regardless of income or immigration status,” Gov. Newsom’s office told ABC News. “Through this expansion, we’re making sure families and communities across California are healthier, stronger, and able to get the care they need when they need it.”
Several of Newsom’s colleagues also expressed their excitement for the bill.
“This historic investment speaks to California’s commitment to health care as a human right,” Durazo said California State Sen. María Elena Durazo (D) back in May.
“This is a game-changer,” said Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles).“It’s one of the most important pieces of legislation that’s gonna go through this house because the ability to give health care means the ability to live life without pain.”
The problem with all of these statements is that California is well-known for its huge homeless population. While Americans are living on the streets barely surviving and veterans who risked it all to serve their country struggle with receiving quality healthcare, the Democrats are more focused on the well-being of illegals.
Of course, many Republicans have called out Newsom’s absurd legislation, one of them being Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA). In an X post, the outspoken representative pointed out that while it seems like illegal immigrants will receive free healthcare, it’s the taxpayers who are flipping the bill.
It’s treason.
No other way to say it.
And now California is going to give illegals free healthcare, but nothing is free, the California taxpayers have to pay for it.
The border crisis is the top issue and I want to impeach but can’t get the votes.
Would a tax revolt stop it? https://t.co/aVdAMCHxQI
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 30, 2023
“Regardless of what your position is on this, it doesn’t make sense for us to be adding to our deficit,” said Sen. Roger Niello (R-CA), the vice-chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.
In 2019, former President Donald Trump also called Newsom and the Democrats out for his policies of putting illegals first.
“If you look at what they’re doing in California, how they’re treating people, they don’t treat their people as well as they treat illegal immigrants,” Trump told reporters at the time. “So, at what point does it stop? It’s crazy what they’re doing. It’s crazy. And it’s mean, and it’s very unfair to our citizens.”