Elise Stefanik vs. Kathy Hochul, Medicaid cuts edition

This week, Kathy Hochul took the opportunity to criticize Elise Stefanik for voting to cut Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens. Stefanik didn't take the criticism lightly, instead returning fire on Gov. Hochul. Initially, Gov. Hochul, the Democrat governor of New York State who took over when Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace, initially "accused Stefanik of voting 'to put five hospitals in her district on the chopping block, endangering her own constituents’ lives, health, and jobs—all to serve Donald Trump. I won't stand for it. I’m fighting like hell to save New Yorkers' health care,' said Hochul."

Rather than sit there and take it, Stefanik replied "You didn’t get exposed enough during our last round when you testified and were totally exposed for your dangerous and failed sanctuary state policies?? Let’s do Medicaid now. NY’s Medicaid program is rampant with tens of billions of waste, fraud, and abuse under Kathy’s watch. Kathy Hochul, the Worst Governor in America oversees the worst run Medicaid program in the country harming NYers. Medicaid is an incredibly important program that I have worked to strengthen for New Yorkers."

Cutting Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens isn't unpopular. Illegal aliens shouldn't be here in the first place. Real Americans shouldn't have their benefits cut to pay for benefits for illegal aliens.

Kathy Hochul's trip to the woodshed

Kathy Hochul didn't put legal residents of New York first. She signed an executive order protecting illegal aliens, then re-signed that executive order twice. As a result of that executive order, innocent New Yorkers were raped, assaulted or lit on fire.

It's irrelevant whether New York State government sometimes cooperates with ICE on criminal cases. The fact still remains that Gov. Hochul's executive order created a gigantic loophole that protects illegal aliens. People don't care that Hochul sometimes works with ICE. Clear-thinking New Yorkers want a governor that protects all New Yorkers.

Kathy Hochul is fighting for illegal aliens. She should be fighting for New Yorkers who are living below the federal poverty line. It's disgraceful that Gov. Hochul fights harder for illegal aliens' benefits than she fights for legal New York residents' benefits.

In the next 2 election cycles, New Yorkers face a pair of critical choices. They can elect a mayor who will ignore federal immigration laws or they can re-elect a mayor that's working hard to clean up NYC's crime problems. New Yorkers can re-elect a pro-establishment corruptocrat or they can elect a Republican who's focused on helping legal residents live the American Dream. There was a time when that wasn't a difficult choice.