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John Hoeven: “We said, no, if you're here illegally, then you are not…”

Featuring: John Hoeven, Republican | U.S. Senate North Dakota

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10.2.25 Senator Hoeven on Newsmax with Rob Schmitt

Published | Video Starts at 00:40

And as Vice President Vance explained very clearly, the Biden administration was, you know, giving status so that people who had come here illegally were getting these benefits. And that's one of the things that we changed in the one big beautiful bill. We said, no, if you're here illegally, then you are not going to get these health care benefits. And also we added a work requirement. That's one of the things that Senator Schumer in this Schumer shutdown wants to repeal those provisions of the one big beautiful bill … (00:40–00:48)

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Asserts that legislation was passed to deny health care benefits to people in the U.S. illegally.

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