Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is warning that people “are going to die” if Republicans don’t give in to Democrats’ demands, including free healthcare for illegal immigrants, Breitbart reported. A partial government shutdown went into effect on Wednesday at midnight after lawmakers from both parties failed to reach a deal.
Whenever a government shutdown is on the table, both parties claim the other is to blame, using it to rile up their respective voter bases. This time has been no different as Warren appeared on MSNBC’s The Briefing on Wednesday to slam Republicans over their positions and make the most hyperbolic predictions.
The Massachusetts Democrat dutifully pulled at heartstrings to make her point about the Republicans' refusal to give in to Democrats' demands, including increased spending on healthcare. She had a sympathetic ear with host Jen Psaki, who didn’t push back on anything Warren said as she spewed her talking points.
Warren used the Democrats' old standby lie that Republicans don't care about Americans and thus refused Democrats' demands. "They’re trying to find anything to talk about around the shutdown, to blame it on Democrats so they don’t have to talk about the two-thirds of seniors who are in nursing homes, a lot of them with serious health problems, half of them with Alzheimer’s, who can just be pushed out on the street under the Republican bill," Warren claimed.
"They don’t want to talk about those brand new babies and their mamas who will lose access to health care," said Warren, suddenly caring about babies she'd usually want dead as a pro-abortion politician. "They do not want to talk about your neighbor who counts on a home health aide, and who counts on having a wheelchair in order to try to live independently, and can lose all of that," Warren went on.
"They don’t want to talk about the tens of millions of families who are receiving notices this month saying, here’s where your health care premiums were already too high. Here’s where they’re going to be, thanks to the Republicans," the Massachusetts Democrat continued.
"They’re going to be people who are going to have to make decisions about whether to make rent or pay for health insurance. They’re going to be people who are just going to let their health insurance go. They’re going to be people who are going to die because of these decisions," Warren dramatically predicted.
"And that, more than anything else, is what the Republicans don’t want to talk about. They rather shut down the government than help Americans who are just trying to get their costs under control. I think that is a fight worth fighting, and the Democrats are organized to do it right now," Warren said, completely mischaracterizing the fight.
Like all Democrats, Warren decided that an impassioned speech about all of the horrible things Republicans are doing to the American people was the way to go. Unfortunately for her, what she had to say was all a lie as the truth is that Republicans wouldn't agree to the healthcare spending because they realized it was, in large part, another entitlement for illegal immigrants, Fox News reported.
Just before the shutdown, Republicans charged that Democrats were more interested in giving "free healthcare for illegal immigrants" rather than keeping the government operating for priorities such as paying members of the military. Democrats held out and were willing to let the current budget expire because Republicans wouldn't go along with their handouts to migrants.
Last week, Vice President J.D. Vance said as much in a post to X, formerly Twitter. "Democrats are about to shut down the government because they demand we fund healthcare for illegal aliens," Vance wrote. He was backed up by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who also said Sunday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just wanted to "reinstate free healthcare for illegal aliens paid by American taxpayers."
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump reiterated the truth as the deadline loomed large. "They want to have illegal aliens come into our country and get massive healthcare at the cost to everybody else, and we don't have it. And that’s, I would say, the number one reason that they want to strike is to get illegal immigrants’ healthcare," Trump said.
Warren can make these exaggerated predictions and heartrending emotional appeals all she wants, but the truth is out there for anyone with eyes to see. Democrats don't care about the poor or the downtrodden; they just care about giving more free stuff to illegal aliens in hopes that they will someday become Democratic voters.
