Dems forced the shutdown by using the filibuster to prevent a Senate floor vote that would’ve passed the House “stopgap” bill to fund federal operations for another six weeks or so.
As their price just to allow a vote, Democrats demand roughly $1.5 trillion in added spending.
Despite their denials, a significant part of that is funding for health coverage for illegal immigrants: Their own alternative bill spelled that out, with language repealing recent GOP legislation that restricts Medicaid coverage of such migrants.
The main category of federal Medicaid spending on “undocumented aliens” jumped from $3 billion in 2023 to $9 billion in 2024; even more federal cash flows indirectly to such care via various state accounting gimmicks that the Biden administration winked at.
Now step back and look at the bigger picture.
Thanks in good part to President Joe Biden’s two huge spending bills, the national debt is now over $37 trillion, up from not quite $28 trillion when he took office.
Not only did that hog-wild spending produce Bidenflation, it put the country on a completely unsustainable fiscal path.