Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Ends Medicaid Funding for Illegal Migrants
The “Big Beautiful Bill” excludes roughly 1.4 million illegal migrants from the Medicaid program, despite a widely misunderstood vote on the Senate floor.
Neil Munro 1 Jul 2025
The GOP’s spending bill excludes roughly 1.4 million illegal migrants from the nation’s Medicaid program, despite a widely misunderstood vote on the Senate floor.
“Yesterday, there were a lot of rumors floating around about the ban on Medicaid for illegal aliens being stripped from the bill,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said on X. “Thankfully, that’s not true. It’s very much in the bill we just passed.”
The vote is an economic blow to blue-state leaders in 14 states who subsidize families of illegal migrants to help inflate their consumer and real estate economies. For example, adult migrants get healthcare aid via Medicaid funding in sanctuary-state California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington State, and in GOP-led Utah.
“We’re not talking about a few bucks here and there,” Schmitt tweeted:
This could cost blue states tens of billions of dollars. A lot of these states have serious budget problems already. They’re going to have to choose between their addiction to mass migration and averting financial collapse.
That means blue states are left with a choice: Either send your illegal immigrants home, or you’re going to be paying their bills yourself. It’s easy when you’re doing it on the American taxpayer’s dime. It’s a lot tougher when it’s all coming from your own constituents.
The provision will make little difference to many hard-working, younger illegal migrants. But it will raise the pressure on elderly migrants and poor families to return to their home countries.
The exit of migrants back to their home countries will help ordinary Americans by nudging up wages and reducing rental costs.
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