Saving Medicaid for Lawful Residents

The OBBB has a number of Medicaid cuts.  One of them cuts illegals off Medicaid.   You think this is odd?  We must assume that Medicaid is paying for illegals, because 20 states are now suing to be excused from providing Medicaid information to ICE.  7/1/25 Denver Post:

"Colorado and 19 other states sued the federal government Tuesday to prevent Medicaid data from being used for immigration enforcement.

"In June, the Department of Health and Human Services transferred data about people enrolled in Medicaid to the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The shared data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, immigration status and information about medical claims made by residents of California, Illinois, Washington state and the District of Columbia."

Now, if you want to argue that illegal aliens deserve medical care, there is a plausible argument founded in a Christian commonwealth's duty to care for the poor.  But advocates for this point of view usually get pretty insistent that this is a secular society that barely tolerates Christianity (as long as you bake that cake!).  

Another argument is that providing care to the poor requires some care to make sure it is spent wisely.  Spending it on people who are not lawfully here seems unwise.