Convicted felon President Trump tells Politico Playbook he and his regime really are sticking to that bullshit line about Democrats’ shutdown goal: To ensure that illegal immigrants get free government healthcare – the logic being that cutting Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies for everyone will save taxpayer money because a small number of illegal aliens have allegedly gamed the system.

“We don’t want to give illegal aliens the health care of Americans,” said Trump, adding that the Democrats “want to destroy health care in America by giving it to millions and millions of illegal aliens. There’s not money for that. Nobody has money for that.” And that’s the extent of the quotes.

At no point did the Politico Playbook reporter write that she had asked Trump to point out the specific provision in the Dem proposal specifying they want to give undocumented immigrants access to Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies. Or an estimate of how many were benefitting.

Meanwhile the Mountain State Spotlight reports that 60,000 West Virginians stand to lose their ACA subsidies without the fix that none of the state’s four Republican members of Congress want to vote for. The only one of them to even answer the Spotlight’s request for comment was Senator Jim Justice’s office with a spokesman saying “This government funding package is not the correct vehicle to address something like this. He believes the discussion to be had on this issue shouldn’t be under the gun of a government shutdown.” This as if Dems are supposed to just surrender, keep the lights on, and then trust the GOP to want to correct their own fuckup.