Scott Jennings Repeatedly Pushes Back on CNN’s Phillip’s Claim Illegal Immigrants Don’t Get Medicaid

JENNINGS: “The other debate about who is going to get taxpayer funded Medicaid in this country, that’s what the memes are about. That’s what the fight is about. Democrats want to make it about this subsidy issue. They don’t run out till the end of the year, by the way. But the real thing is they filed legislation to repeal what the Republicans did this summer. And so, these two issues have been conflated. But the fact is, they don’t just want the subsidies. They want other things. And the president is drawing attention to it, I think in a pretty clever way. We just had a national emergency about telling jokes. I don’t know why people can’t take a joke.”
PHILLIP: “Medicaid is still not going to illegal immigrants, Scott.”
JENNINGS: “It is. It really does.”
PHILLIP: “It’s not.”
JENNINGS: “It really does. It does in several blue states.”
PHILLIP: “It’s not. Scott, no, it’s not.”
JENNINGS: “It really does.”
PHILLIP: “Listen, the part of the bill that deals with the money that goes to states, it doesn’t say anything about their immigration policy. So, red state or blue state, those states are getting less money from the federal government. That still has to be dealt with. And that has nothing to do with immigration. And again, Medicaid does not go to undocumented immigrants. SNAP does not go to undocumented immigrants. You know, CHIP does not go to undocumented immigrants.”
JENNINGS: “It doesn’t matter how many times you say it. It absolutely does.”
PHILLIP: “I don’t know. I mean, Scott, prove me wrong.”
JENNINGS: “How many blue states — “
PHILLIP: “Show me the law.”
JENNINGS: “How many — how many blue states? Mike Johnson showed it in a gigantic poster on Friday.”
PHILLIP: “Scott, show me the U.S. code where it says that they’re allowed to get Medicaid funding. Where is it?”
JENNINGS: “I will put it out on social media.”
PHILLIP: “It doesn’t exist. In fact, the law says exactly the opposite. So it’s — “
JENNINGS: “They’re trying to repeal what the Republicans did this summer.”
PHILLIP: “Scott, that is a lie, okay?”
JENNINGS: “It is not.”
PHILLIP: “Now, you might want to dispute whether or not states should get reimbursed from the federal — or should get federal dollars for Medicaid at the levels that they got it before. That’s a different issue. But that’s not an issue that’s actually tied to immigration, and you know it.”