The Quiet Lie, Now Said Out Loud: Newsom Brags About Illegal Migrant Healthcare

There is a particular sound a political lie makes when it finally collapses. It is not a bang. It is a shrug, followed by applause from the people who swore it never happened. Speaker Mike Johnson heard that sound on Friday. In an X post, Johnson shared video of California Gov. Gavin Newsom openly boasting about expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants — a policy Democrats and their media allies long insisted did not exist, or at least did not matter. “Remember when the media LIED REPEATEDLY and said that Democrats do NOT give health care to illegal aliens — and


