WASHINGTON — Longtime Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters acknowledged that her party forced the government into a shutdown on Wednesday in order to secure “health care for everybody” — including illegal immigrants.

Waters, 87, was questioned outside the US Capitol Tuesday about Democrats’ opposition to a stopgap funding bill in both chambers of Congress that would have kept the government’s lights on until Nov. 21.

“Are Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens?” asked LindellTV reporter Alison Steinburg.

“Democrats are demanding health care for everybody,” Waters responded, hours before her Senate colleagues blocked the spending measure.

“We want to save lives,” she added. “We want to make sure that health care is available to those who would die not having the help of their go

See Full Page