Nearly $1.4 billion in federal taxpayer dollars has gone to fund Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants , according to preliminary numbers from the Trump administration’s most recent audits of several state Medicaid programs.

The new findings from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz that several states have misappropriated federal money to provide illegal immigrants with Medicaid coverage intensifies the GOP claim that Democrats are prolonging the federal government shutdown to provide illegal immigrants with healthcare.

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