The federal government will shut down early Wednesday, in large part because of a debate between Republicans and Democrats over enhanced Obamacare subsidies and whether some immigrants should get those financial benefits.

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Republicans claim Democrats want to give health care to "illegal immigrants."

Democrats, in turn, say that's a lie.

Democrats say they are only trying to restore health care coverage options that were available to immigrants having "lawful presence" in the United States before those options were eliminated by President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful" tax bill this year.

"They want to have illegal aliens come into our country and get massive healthcare at the cost to everybody else, and we do

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