To hear Vice President JD Vance talk, you’d think the only people who ever see a doctor in the U.S. are undocumented immigrants. He insists that Democrats are refusing to support a Republican budget bill because “they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.” As Vance repeats the lie, the number gets bigger. He’s even claimed that it’s a “trillion dollars for medical benefits for illegal aliens.” By the time you read this, Vance might even be saying that Democrats plan to ban all citizens from ever entering a hospital again. After all, if you’re going to shamelessly lie, why not just go buck wild?

And make no mistake: This is a lie. As he usually does, the vice president traps the press into playing his game by saying something flatly, outrag

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