Thread: Status: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill on Ending Medicaid for Illegals, Section on AI

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Ends Medicaid Funding for Illegal Migrants



by 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.

It also helps Americans by pressuring companies to upgrade workplaces and by pressuring cautious politicians to enact much-needed but painful reforms in education, productivity, drug policy, housing, and healthcare. For years, politicians have avoided these decisions while allowing interest groups to profit from millions of low-wage migrants.

Schmitt explained why many people mistakenly believe the Senate voted to preserve Medicaid for illegals:

Here’s where the rumor came from: During yesterday’s vote-a-rama, an amendment banning Medicaid for illegal immigrants was voted down. The clip of that vote started circulating online—and folks took that to mean that the provision had been stripped from the bill altogether.

But that was just one of many “messaging amendments,” designed to force Democrats to vote against specific provisions—in this case, a ban on some Medicaid funding for illegal aliens who commit heinous crimes—on the record. It was meant to show the public how radical they are.

The ban itself was ALREADY in the bill. It was never taken out. And it wasn’t just a ban on some Medicaid for illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes—it applies to ALL Medicaid for ALL illegal immigrants. (And most noncitizens generally).

The bill we passed actually goes much further—beyond banning Medicaid for 1.4 million illegal aliens, it:
• Requires states to verify citizenship status before providing coverage
• Bans automatic Medicaid enrollment for children of illegal aliens
• Excludes DACA from Medicaid

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Replying to @SenEricSchmittAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, roughly 1.4 million illegal immigrants are currently on Medicaid, despite the fact that they don't meet federal enrollment requirements—because blue states have expanded their (federally funded) Medicaid programs to include them.

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As of April 2025, 14 states plus Washington, D.C. offer government healthcare to people "regardless of immigration status."Seven states (CA, CO, IL, MN, NY, OR, WA) plus D.C. offer government healthcare to adults (i.e., not just children) "regardless of immigration status."

2:33 PM · Jul 1, 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...egal-migrants/

Ryan James Girdusky

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39% of all illegal alien headed households collect Medicaid. This is more than legal immigrants and American citizens.They access it through their anchor baby children costing taxpayers billions every year.

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Senator Sasha Renée Pérez

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Undocumented immigrants can't receive Federal Medicare or Medicaid. You’re a member of Congress, you should know this. x.com/repluna/status…

10:54 PM · Jul 1, 2025

Status on BBB (Big Beautiful Bill aka Build Back Better) Section 43201 on AI

Bottom line at this point: Sounds like Section 43201 has been removed from the Bill

Here is the brief history of what happened to the BBB:

1. California AI regulations safe after Senate strips moratorium from ‘big, beautiful bill’

Summary:
The U.S. Senate [had] voted not to interfere with state artificial intelligence regulations, defeating a 10-year moratorium on such laws that had earlier cleared the House and alarmed California officials.

The 99-1 vote to strip the moratorium from the president’s “big, beautiful” budget bill followed opposition from a handful of Republicans. Dissenting from GOP colleagues, they argued the measure would allow the proliferation of highly realistic, AI-enabled “deepfake” impersonation videos, endanger jobs and infringe on the rights of state governments.

The small rebellion was enough to seal the moratorium’s fate, given Republicans’ slim majority in the Senate and united opposition from Democrats ...

In California, the moratorium would have threatened 20 AI laws on the books and 30 more proposals that are before the Legislature. State officials, including Attorney General Rob Bonta and the executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency, came out against the measure ...

Prior to its defeat, the moratorium had already been watered down in the Senate, reduced in duration to five years and in scope to states that wanted access to $500 million in new federal funding for AI infrastructure and broadband deployment.


2. States can still pass AI regulations, a ‘big, beautiful bill’ win for child safety advocates

The Senate stripped a controversial provision from the bill — a move praised by those who say tech companies shouldn't be shielded from accountability.

Summary:
In a notable sign of bipartisan agreement, the Senate voted 99-1 on Tuesday to remove from the president’s massive policy agenda bill a provision banning states from regulating artificial intelligence for at least five years, broadly seen as a win for child safety and marginalized people online.

The moratorium, originally proposed for 10 years, had received significant pushback from parent advocates, tech policy think tanks and state legislators across the country because they felt it put corporate interests over the well-being of Americans.

“The Senate did the right thing today for kids, for families, and for our future,” said James P. Steyer, founder and CEO of nonpartisan nonprofit Common Sense Media, in a statement. “This is a victory for everyone, but especially every child growing up in today’s AI-powered world and every parent who wants nothing more than to ensure their kids are safe” ...

The provision nixed in the Senate version of the bill was supported by the Trump administration, and heavily advocated for by venture capitalist firms Andreessen Horowitz and Open AI, the creator of ChatGPT. Proponents argued that the patchwork of state regulations stymies innovation.

While the Senate defeat was a resounding rebuke, the unchanged bill must return to the House for final approval.

Moved to "General Discussion" since this Post includes info on illegal immigration and congressional info about the NEW Big Beautiful Bill status.

Update from The Seattle Times: 7/3/25
House gives final approval to Trump’s big tax bill, sends it to him to sign

House Republicans have propelled President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.

See also these Alipac Posts on this topic:

https://www.alipac.us/f12/trump%92s-...7/#post1778312

https://www.alipac.us/f12/khanna-ill...8/#post1778314