What is this government shutdown about? Billions of dollars for non citizen health care?

[Caveira]

Pay your taxes lol.   Y’all think the Viking pays taxes?

 

[mspart]

https://readlion.com/oregon-now-spends-more-on-program-offering-free-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants-than-state-police/

Oregon will spend more in its current budget period on free health care for immigrants regardless of legal status than on state police by $500 million or more, according to state officials and budget documents.

Oregon officials expect to spend $1.5 billion in combined state and federal taxpayer dollars on a program that offers health benefits to illegal aliens from 2025 to 2027. They expect to spend $717 million on Oregon State Police over the same period, the documents indicate.

The federal government will supply 25% of the funding to provide health benefits to illegal aliens in Oregon, the OHA told the DCNF.

Medicaid — the joint federal-state program that traditionally provided health services to children, pregnant mothers and disabled adults — formally bars illegal immigrants from receiving benefits.

But some blue states have innovated creative accounting methods to extract federal dollars without the federal restrictions, according to the Paragon Health Institute, a non-partisan policy research group. Blue states will issue taxes on Medicaid insurers and providers, obtain a bundle of federal matching dollars for those funds, then return the taxed money to those institutions, the think tank points out.

Spending on health services for illegal aliens in Oregon has climbed by at least 1100% since the program’s introduction roughly four years ago.

The item in bold is describing a money laundering scheme to use federal dollars to pay for healthcare for illegal aliens.   So let's not say it can't happen.   The article says that too, but it is happening.  

mspart