Immigrants losing healthcare access

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Historically and currently, as we’re seeing, immigrants are going to be the first to be cut, for a variety of reasons. They don’t have political power in the same way citizens do.“

– Medha Makhlouf, law professor and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law, who studies immigrants’ access to healthcare.

Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies that helped people buy Obamacare plans. Shalina Chatlani reports for Stateline.

Last week the Trump administration announced a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay off people who claim they were targeted for political prosecution by the Biden administration. In a commentary originally written for The Conversation, Austin Sarat of Amherst College explains the important moral and constitutional issues implicated by Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS that led to the fund’s creation.

Proponents of ethanol have sought year-round sales for a 15% gasoline blend, claiming it would cut gas prices for consumers, boost energy supplies and benefit farmers. But federal legislation has stalled, due to skepticism about those claims as well as opposition from strange bedfellows: environmental advocates and lawmakers from oil states. David Lightman looks at the persistent stalemate.

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