Part 5/11:
Democratic Proposals and Reversals on Immigration Benefits
The controversy intensified when Senate Democrats, led by Schumer, proposed a counter-proposal to a “clean” CR. Instead of keeping the government funded for an agreed-upon period, their plan included a range of partisan priorities, notably funding for illegal aliens.
Detailed documents, publicly available online, reveal that Democrats’ counterproposal included:
Restoring funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—the entity often associated with left-leaning media outlets, a move opposed by Republicans.
Reversing rural healthcare provisions, including the $50 billion allocated in the original bill to support rural hospitals.