McClain to Hold Hearing on Expanding Taxpayer-Funded Services to DACA Recipients

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today announced a hearing titled “Why Expanding Medicaid to DACA Recipients Will Exacerbate the Border Crisis.” The hearing will examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule to expand taxpayer-funded federal health benefits to illegal immigrants benefiting from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created unilaterally by the Obama Administration.

“The Biden Administration’s proposed CMS rule is going to lead to higher healthcare costs and fewer benefits for millions of Americans. What’s more, by expanding taxpayer-funded healthcare access to illegal immigrants enrolled in DACA, President Biden is altering the definition of the law in President Obama’s own CMS rules from 2012, which concluded that DACA recipients were not eligible for Medicaid. President Biden’s disastrous border policies have already created a humanitarian and national security catastrophe at our border. The Biden Administration does not fully understand the true cost of these rules and we need to bring transparency to how they could worsen the crisis at our border,” said Chairwoman McClain.

WHAT: Hearing titled “Why Expanding Medicaid to DACA Recipients Will Exacerbate the Border Crisis”

DATE: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

TIME: 2:00 PM EST

LOCATION: 2247 Longworth House Office Building

WITNESSES:

• Dr. Ellen Montz, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service

The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be livestreamed online at https://oversight.house.gov/.