"They are proposing a rule with dubious legal basis to provide taxpayer-funded Federal health benefits to individuals who have entered this country illegally."
"Even President Obama understood this much when his Administration determined in 2012 that DACA recipients should not be eligible for Medicaid."
"If there is any individual that believes in stripping Medicaid from DACA recipients, I would like to know if they are willing to give the $6.6 billion that DACA recipients pay in Federal taxes back to..."
"What I think people are irritated with... is we have three co-equal branches of government to do that."
"We have got to stop letting the agencies run with these. We have to follow the law."
"I think what it has to do, to answer your question, is incentives. I think people are logical and people do things that they believe is in their best interest, and we incentivize people and we incenti..."
"We have three co-equal branches of government, and we have to stop changing the definitions, and we have to follow the rules of law."
"This Administration has chosen to reward those who enter the country illegally, with release from custody in many cases."
"That is our job, and that is what we are doing. CMS' own estimates show that Medicaid and CHIP state expenditures would increase by $40 million."
"Instead, they are proposing a rule with dubious legal basis to provide taxpayer-funded Federal health benefits to individuals who have entered this country illegally."
"This hearing does not meet those standards because what powerful people are we holding to account here?"
"This hearing is not about putting up guardrails, it is about ripping away a safety net."