Ro Khanna
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I don't think if you're undocumented and you show up to a hospital that you should be denied care.
Well, who pays for that?
we have an emergency Medicaid program.
And I guess if you mean that when you fund Medicaid, when you fund the Affordable Care Act, that you're saying you're funding some of it for undocumented people who are showing up in emergency situations, then yeah, you're funding that.
But
My view of it is that, let's be honest, that that's not where the big money and the budgets are.
You're talking about a small group of folks.
You can argue the cultural point about it, but don't make that the numbers point.
Well, first of all, it's bad for some of the public servants, right?
Will the Capitol Police, will police officers get paid?
Will military get paid?
If they have a family member who is in government service, will they get paid?
And they just may, as Americans or family members, care about that.
Or you're going to have people without pay.
Second, there will be some services that will start getting cut.
Right.
Like you're flying a plane.
You may not notice it for a few days, but then after a few weeks, you're saying, oh, they have less government, less flights because we don't have enough people showing up or staffing at the airports.
And some of the parks may shut down.
Things that involve the government that aren't national security urgent are going to get affected.