Scott Jennings Battles Kaitlan Collins on Illegals Getting Medicaid: ‘Sure They Can’

Collins: “Can I say one thing, which is that people who are in the country illegally cannot get these subsidies that we’re talking about?”
FINNEY: “Correct.”
JENNINGS: “Sure they can. Sure they can.”
FINNEY: “No, they can’t.”
Collins: “No, they can’t. It’s — “
JENNINGS: “Sure they can. When they — “
FINNEY: “They can’t.”
Collins: “It’s federal law, Scott, as you know.”
JENNINGS: “Who — who do you think — who do you think pays when they go to the emergency room? It’s the Medicaid emergency program.”
Collins: “Scott, going to the emergency room is not getting an ObamaCare subsidy. And the emergency room is not health care, Scott.”
JENNINGS: “You guys are conflating. You guys are conflating these issues.”
FINNEY: “No, we’re not, Scott.”
JENNINGS: “You’re conflating these issues.”
FINNEY: “You’re conflating, and you’re being dishonest with the American people about this — “
JENNINGS: “The subsidies are a separate issue.”
FINNEY: “ — because you know it’s unpopular.”
JENNINGS: “The Medicaid program cuts are a different thing.”
Collins: “Right, but I’m talking about subsidies.”
FINNEY: “No.”
JENNINGS: “Medicaid and the ObamaCare stuff are two different issues.”
FINNEY: “Correct.”
JENNINGS: “And I said, the subsidies may get negotiated over time. But what Democrats want to do is roll back what the Republican Medicaid reforms were. They want — look, I don’t understand why everybody’s so mad. For time immemorial, Democrats have argued that it’s good, it’s good for illegal immigrants to get Medicaid. Every candidate for president in 2020 raised their hand for it. In the Big, Beautiful Bill debate, they argued it was good policy. I can’t believe there’s an about-face in the Democratic Party on it today.”
Collins: Hold on. I got a question for Karen, but Scott, I will say, people who are in the country illegally also can’t get Medicaid. That’s federal law.”
JENNINGS: “Sure they can. Sure they can.”
Collins: “They can’t get Medicaid, Medicare — “
JENNINGS: “They also can’t register to vote.”
Collins: “ — ObamaCare subsidies.”
JENNINGS: “They also can’t register to vote, but we just found one in Maryland who was running the Des Moines school system.!
FINNEY: “Oh, one? Oh, my God, one?! Scott?! (Laughs)”
JENNINGS: “I mean, I’m telling you, you guys say these things can’t happen, and then they happen.”
Collins: “I’m just saying, Scott, it’s — “
FINNEY: “Oh, my God, you’re so — “
Collins: “ — but I’m just saying it’s federal law.”
JENNINGS: “I mean, you can run cover — “
Collins: “And they’re not trying to roll back — “
JENNINGS: “ — you can run cover for it if you want. But they do get federal tax money.”
Collins: “And they’re not trying to roll back federal law.”
Collins: “It’s just the facts.”
JENNINGS: “They get federal tax money. They get federal tax money. Ask Jake, he had it on today.”
Collins: “I’m just saying it’s against federal law to do that.
JENNINGS: “OK.”
FINNEY: “Yes, it is.
JENNINGS: “Good luck with it.”