Robert F. Kennedy endorsed Trump for president before he was tapped to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
The White House said that several government health services – including Head Start, substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, family planning benefits, and health workforce loans and scholarships – will be inaccessible to illegal immigrants.
The move aligns with President Donald Trump's dual campaign promise of stricter immigration enforcement and elimination of wasteful government spending.
The latest revelation comes on the heels of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump's hallmark spending and tax bill. Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans, proved to be a sticking point in both the House and Senate.
TRUMP'S SPENDING BILL FACES SETBACK AS SENATE RULES KNOCK OUT KEY MEDICAID PROVISIONS
As the bill inched across the finish line, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed claims that the measure would strip vulnerable Americans of their healthcare.
"This bill protects Medicaid… for those who truly deserve this program, the needy, pregnant women, children and sick Americans who physically cannot work. It ensures that able-bodied Americans who can work 20 hours a week are actually doing so, and that will therefore strengthen and protect those benefits for Americans who need it," Leavitt told reporters during a White House briefing last month.
Protestors affiliated with several leftist groups, including the "People's Action Institute," flooded a U.S. Capitol office building in Washington, D.C., recently as Congress prepared to vote on the "big beautiful" budget bill backed by President Donald Trump. (Fox News Digital)
Nina Schaefer, the director of the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at the Heritage Foundation, described the Medicaid provisions as "common sense administrative changes."
"The Medicaid program is over 60 years old and has been running on autopilot for far too long. These changes begin to bring much needed oversight, transparency, and accountability to the program," Schaefer said.
Amanda covers the intersection of business and geopolitics for Fox News Digital.
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