JD Vance Finally Tells the Truth: To Hell With Medicaid and Budget Deficits – Only Mass Deportation Matters

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Washington, DC — Ahead of Senate Republicans’ scramble to pass their massive and harmful budget bill, Vice President J.D. Vance made clear that turbocharging Stephen Miller’s mass deportation obsession remains White House priority number one. In a late-night social media post ahead of his tie-breaking vote in the Senate today, VP Vance wrote:

“Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”

The big, ugly bill includes more than $150 billion for immigration enforcement – a staggering amount that would empower Miller and allies like Vance to fully scale up the mass deportation crusade at an incalculable and irreparable cost to American families, communities and our economy.

According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“Slashing Medicaid for millions? ‘Immaterial.’ Cutting funding for rural hospitals? No big deal. Adding nearly $4 trillion to the national debt and kneecapping clean energy industries? Doesn’t matter.

All that matters to Vice President JD Vance, Stephen Miller and other nativist true believers in the Trump administration is their crusade against immigrants. Vance finally told the truth: to hell with Medicaid and budget deficits – all that matters is unleashing ICE to go after our neighbors and coworkers and in the process devastating our families and communities.

Already, ICE enforcement is targeting long-settled immigrants who most Americans want to legalize, not deport (see this excellent Philip Bump’s column in the Washington Post and recent polling). Now, they are planning on recklessly escalating the harms and costs even further.”