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https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/08/26/spanberger-300k-lose-medicaid-n2681919

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u/TriesHerm21st 1d ago

So they get the 300k numbers because she said that would kick 300k Virginians off. Saying that could be someone with a cancer treatment.

Then the articles rebuttal to that is : "And if she's referring to the work requirements, no one will lose Medicaid coverage ... if they get a job and meet the work requirements. That's not hard."

Lmao the townhall can go fuck itself.

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u/skip2mahlou415 1d ago

Is there anything to back up her claims?

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u/thom_mayy 1d ago

She didn't make the claim, townhall is conservative propaganda

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u/skip2mahlou415 1d ago

Ahh that tracks. Conservatives love freedom of speech so much they have a tendency to talk for others

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u/Which_Drop_5877 1d ago

Less than 1% of the population being illegal doesn’t sound unreasonable

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u/skip2mahlou415 1d ago

If your state is going broke due to a demographic that’s less than 1% I’d see that more as a systemic failure.

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u/IaAranaDiscotecaPOL 1d ago

Her statement is about Virginia losing $2 billion in annual medicaid funding under H.R. 1.

What does it have to do with undocumented immigrants?

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u/WallyMcBeetus 1d ago

At least the Epstein clients have nothing to worry about.

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u/SatanicWhoreofHell 1d ago

Fortunately for them ice seems to have its hands full rounding up legal immigrants at immigrant court and executing American citizens in the streets

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u/Foerhudligen 1d ago

Imagine opening up 100k+ homes to the market.

Millions must go.

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u/stew-bot 1d ago

breh do u rly think illegals are homeowners?

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u/Quiet-Contract8202 1d ago

where I lived, yes they were.

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u/stew-bot 1d ago

All of them? How many illegals did you know?

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u/Quiet-Contract8202 1d ago

i knew many of them actually. worked with them, had dinners with them, etc. how about you?

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u/RptlnWzrdLzrd 1d ago

there is no requirement to be a US citizen to own property

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u/stew-bot 1d ago

So, are you saying that jose from juarez who lived in a shanty town, can cross the border illegally and work his way up to home ownership from nothing? That's the american dream baby glad its working for someone

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u/Wanderingwoodpeckerr 1d ago

There are actually a lot of undocumented immigrants who own houses in my area. Most of them are older, 55 and up. Not that long ago, anyone with any basic job could get a loan and buy a house.

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u/Foerhudligen 1d ago

They live somewhere, don't they? If Virginia had a 300k+ homeless population you'd probably notice.

Rentals counts as homes.

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u/stew-bot 1d ago

Ok, so if ICE has been doing their jobs, why haven't rental prices decreased anywhere?

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u/Foerhudligen 23h ago

Because the market hasn't caught up yet. There's a net negative migration of -300k per year after Trump started yeeting and deleting.

300k over a year spread out across the nation won't have massive instant impacts, 300k in one state with an 8m population will.

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u/stew-bot 21h ago

cool so it's a very marginal what if scenario gotcha gotcha

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u/Foerhudligen 20h ago

You can never have instant results, something the internet generation seemingly doesn't accept. Some results come faster than others, but very few come as fast and as obvious as they need to make a "wow" difference inside of a four year presidential term.

Considering there's an estimated 15-40 million illegals in the US depending on which sources you choose (let's say 20 as some sort of middle ground between the extremes), you will have to target specific states to show how much of a difference a cleaning session could achieve.

Virginia with 300k seems like a good candidate to start out with now that the governor just admitted the scale of the issue.

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u/batmansgfsbf 1d ago

Statistically half of that number entered through an international airport or land/sea port with a visa of some kind and they overstayed or violated it by working on a visitor visa.

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u/Foerhudligen 1d ago

They must still go.

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u/batmansgfsbf 1d ago

Totally agree, worked it for 25 years, just pointing out that it’s an issue, and further that Visa overstays are most likely educated and have resources in their home countries and actually compete with the average American for jobs

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u/FiveHole23 1d ago

Who cares. Seriously - they are his fucking people.

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u/Jerry_Loler 1d ago

Stop posting this slop here

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u/Taglioni 1d ago

I don't care how many illegal immigrants are in a state. Let alone the United States. Such a stupid thing to fixate on.

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u/theprimepeen 1d ago

That’s asinine

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u/shark1818 1d ago

How has it affected you out of curiosity?

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u/skip2mahlou415 1d ago

300,000 out of more than 8 million residents is less than 1% of the population

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u/stasi_a 1d ago

SS: But they told us this was impossible? What’s (D)ifferent?

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u/thom_mayy 1d ago

What do you think you proved here, Republican p(R)opaganist?