Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and other senators are blasting the Biden administration’s plan to expand Obamacare to more than 100,000 illegal migrants protected under the 2012 DACA program.

“In Biden’s economy, inflation is on the rise while job growth is slowing down,” Blackburn along with Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., wrote in a joint May 8 letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Unemployment is at a two-year high, and foreign-born workers are flooding the workforce.

“Struggling American taxpayers are already on the hook for the costs of housing and welfare for illegal immigrants. And now, with this misguided rule, President Biden is asking these same hard-working, taxpaying Americans to foot the bill for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. This new policy is not only unjust, it is economically unsustainable for millions of Americana citizens.”

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