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The federal government formally entered a shutdown at midnight on Wednesday after Senate Democrats bucked a GOP-led short-term federal funding bill just hours before.While President Donald Trump and his administration have some level of discretion over what is affected during a shutdown, federal agencies must largely make their own decisions dictated by guidance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).Thousands of federal workers could be furloughed and others forced […]

A past federal audit, along with existing state government policies, raises questions regarding claims from Senate Democrats that illegal immigrants do not receive Medicaid amid the ongoing federal government shutdown debate."Fact: Undocumented immigrants are not even eligible to purchase the ACA coverage we’re trying to protect. Republicans voted to hike costs and take health care away from American citizens. Including their own constituents. Read that again. Over and over," Sen. […]

FIRST ON FOX: The White House doubled down in a new memo on its messaging against the Democrats’ shutdown position and claimed that if the Democrats' demands are met, nearly $200 billion would flow to healthcare for illegal immigrants.The memo, first obtained by Fox News Digital, argued that congressional Democrats’ desire to repeal the healthcare title of President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill," now dubbed the Working Families Tax Cut […]

Vice President JD Vance smacked down Democrat lawmakers’ "preposterous" claim that Democrats are not trying to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants in an interview with "FOX & Friends" on Wednesday.Vance said Democrats want to reinstate Biden-era federal funding for emergency healthcare for illegal immigrants that was ended under the Trump administration."They say, ‘We're not actually trying to give healthcare benefits to illegal aliens,’" Vance said of the Democrats. […]