BONUS POD： Autopen-Gate begins as White House Opens Probe plus Are Illegal Immigrants Getting Benefits in New York？
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The White House has officially opened an investigation into Joe Biden's White House use of the presidential auto-pin to sign pardons, executive orders, and other laws and actions, potentially without the former president s knowledge.
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And yet we heard from White House aide Nera Tannen reportedly testifying she had no idea
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who in Biden's inner circle gave her permission to use the autopilot.
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If there is this underlying plot to hide Biden's mental condition so that others could
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arrogate his power in that way, that's a conspiracy crime.
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So it's no wonder two people have already taken the fifth.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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It's so nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
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Representative James Comer now explaining exactly what's at stake in the investigation
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And yes, the White House is now opening an investigation into that autopilot.
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Democrats saying that illegal immigrants are not on Medicaid.
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Well, Representative Wesley Hunt is now asking New York about their 670,000 illegal immigrants
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and, quote, how many of them are actually on Medicaid.
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It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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The White House now confirming they are opening the auto-pin Biden investigation.
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We may actually get some answers about just how bad the cognitive decline of Joe Biden was
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It was clearly an auto-pin, and somebody was directing that auto-pin to do things and sign
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things and give out pardons, and it wasn't the sitting president, Joe Biden.
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The White House Counsel's Office has officially opened this investigation on former President
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Joe Biden's White House abuse of the presidential auto-pin to sign those pardons, executive orders,
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and other laws and actions, potentially without the former president's knowledge.
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This is, in my opinion, one of the biggest political scandals in all of American history.
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Sources confirming the opening of the investigation within the Trump White House.
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And the press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, issued a statement that the administration is, quote,
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Joe Biden was the worst, the most incompetent, and senile president in our country's history,
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is what Caroline Leavitt wrote in a statement responding to the press request for a comment.
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It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency
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to an auto-pin that was controlled by unelected leftist staffers who were allowed to make terrible
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The Trump White House is committed to finding the answers to many outstanding questions the
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American people still have about how business in the Biden White House was conducted, Leavitt's
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President Trump also had something to say at the White House in an unrelated sitting in the
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Here's what he had to say about this scandal as well.
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Whoever operated the auto-pin had a policy, which is, by the way, I think the biggest scandal.
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That's the scandal they should be talking about, not Jeffrey Epstein.
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The scandal you should be talking about is the auto-pin, because I think it's the biggest
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Now let's talk about what the investigation is going to look like.
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I'm being told that this investigation will include the review of tens of thousands of
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documents turned over to the National Archives, as well as Records Administration.
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And those documents, as the New York Times first reported early over the weekend, will
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potentially provide direct evidence of whether Biden was aware of the actions that were being
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Now Biden potentially absolved his senior officials that acted on his behalf by auto-pin by telling
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the Times in a blanket statement that could whitewash complicity, saying, quote, I conscientiously
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made all those decisions, is what Biden's staff said to the Times.
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Now, the American people, you can decide to believe Joe Biden, but I think it's pretty
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clear the White House is not going to take the former president at his word.
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Which brings me to another story, a very important one as well.
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He is the former chief of staff for the First Lady Jill Biden, often dubbed her work husband.
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He was before Congress and invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a deposition by the
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In fact, he refused to answer any questions related to President Joe Biden's cognitive
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fitness, whether he was ever asked to lie about the president's health or about the use
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Now, he is the second former aide to do so, following the president's physician, Dr.
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Kevin O'Connor, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, emphasized the seriousness of
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this refusal, saying it raises concerns that unelected staff may have assumed presidential
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Now, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who also pled the Fifth, Biden's longtime White House physician,
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invoked it the same way at a closed-door deposition before the same committee.
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The committee pressed him on whether he was ever instructed to misrepresent Biden's health
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Now, Republicans have obviously highlighted this as an extraordinary cover-up and suggestive
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of a concealed cover-up that was planned by top-level people in the White House.
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And the doctor's legal team stressed that exercising the right does not imply wrongdoing.
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The House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, is actively investigating the allegations
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that Biden's health issues were so secretive, were so concealed, that aides may have used
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the autopin to sign official documents, possibly circumventing presidential authority.
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And they may have signed documents that Joe Biden never intended to sign, didn't even
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know existed, and invoked policy decisions that he didn't even know about.
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Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat from Texas, a committee Democrat, has defended
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President Biden, asserting that occasional verbal missteps are not, quote, evidence of cognitive
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The investigation into Biden's cognitive fitness and potential misuse of the autopin is clearly
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With Bernal and O'Connor both invoking their Fifth Amendment rights, House Republicans view
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this as evidence of internal concealment, while Democrats are maintaining the lie, saying
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this is no big deal at all and it doesn't prove any wrongdoing.
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Now, at the end of the day, this is going to come down to what the White House finds, what
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And I wouldn't be shocked to see more people invoke the Fifth Amendment so they don't incriminate
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There has been a question that many Republicans have been asking.
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How many illegal immigrants are actually receiving access to Medicaid benefits?
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Now, if you ask the Democratic Party, they will tell you that there isn't a single illegal
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Insert a brilliant move by Texas Representative Wesley Hunt.
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He's now demanding data from the New York governor over how many of the state's estimated 670,000
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illegal immigrants are actually receiving access to those Medicaid benefits that Democrats say,
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Hunt, a Republican, decided to just straight up ask the question directly to the governor on
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Monday, raising questions about how the Empire State has leveraged waivers to actually allow
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its Medicaid program to operate differently from federal standards and mandates.
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Governor Hochul is required to report this information to the federal government.
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Will she comply or continue to harbor lawbreakers while putting the health care of law-abiding
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Open borders, benefits for illegal aliens, and betrayal of the people they're supposed to
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Now, there is an estimated 1.4 million people, quote, whose citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory
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And they are potentially being covered by Medicaid programs in various states.
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That coming now from the Congressional Budget Office.
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But one study from the Liberal-Leaning Fiscal Policy Institute, cited by Congressman Hunt,
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found that there are some 670,000 illegal immigrants in the Empire State.
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New York has benefited from Section 1115 waivers, which allows it to experiment and deviate from
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federal standards in its implementation of Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance
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A spokesperson for the governor quickly fired back at Congressman Hunt and argued that he should
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have focused on opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act over its Medicaid reforms instead of
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targeting New York, saying this, if Representative Hunt were truly concerned about the health and
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well-being of his constituents, he should have directed his focus to voting against the Big
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Ugly Bill, which will invoke irreparable damage to Medicaid programs nationwide, including in his
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Yet again, you may notice that the spokesperson for the governor did not answer the question,
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how many illegal immigrants are receiving benefits?
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This is just another pitiful attempt, the governor's office went on to say, to divert attention from
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Republican actions to eliminate health care for 1.5 million New Yorkers and deny food security
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You'll notice in that statement, yet again, the governor of New York refusing to answer
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the question, how many illegal immigrants are taking government benefits?
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Now, state officials have told the New York Post that, quote, most undocumented individuals
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Most undocumented individuals are not eligible for, quote, full Medicaid coverage.
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By the way, that statement would also be true for most American citizens are not eligible
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for full Medicaid coverage and that the small group that is enrolled in the state's program
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has not benefited, they claim, from federal dollars.
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Now, New York also claimed that spending was unrelated to the 1-1-1-5 waivers.
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Well, then why would the governor of New York not answer the simple question that was put
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Now, Hunt noted that the Biden administration had rejected the use of those waivers for states
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like South Carolina, Arizona, and other states.
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The Texas Republicans stress that the waivers were not intended to allow illegal immigrants
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to benefit American tax dollars going for their health care coverage.
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Now, the Biden administration allowed and even encouraged the use of these 1-1-1-5 waivers
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to extend Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, something that Democrats are now claiming
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And despite federal law actually prohibiting them from receiving these benefits, Hunt wrote
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Now, back in February, President Trump also signed an executive order that directed his administration
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to ensure, and to maximum extent possible, that, quote, no taxpayer-funded benefits go to
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That order pointed to existing law, such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
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Reconciliation Act of 1996, which generally blocks illegal immigrants from getting federal
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The Texas Republican also cited concerns about New York's Green Light Law, which permits all
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state residents, regardless of immigration status, to get driver's licenses.
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Now, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against that law, arguing that it hamstrings
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Hunt argued it could help illegal immigrants get access to taxpayer-funded benefits, using
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And to address these concerns, Hunt now demanded that Hochul conduct a review of its Medicaid
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enrollment base on Social Security numbers and release those findings to the public, saying
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this, New Yorkers deserve transparency, accountability, and adherence to law and the administration of
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Policies that divert limited resources away from lawful recipients, American citizens, not
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only violates federal standards, they also destroy public trust and threaten the sustainability
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of programs designed to serve our most vulnerable American citizens.
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Now, Hunt has also drawn speculation over recent weeks that he may vie for Senator John Cornyn's
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seat in the Senate in Texas in the 2026 midterms.
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And this could very well be one of those points that he would campaign on.
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The American people, as taxpayers, deserve to know where their money is going.
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And if it is being diverted to 670,000 illegal immigrants in the Empire State, yes, about
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One other thing that I think is also a point that needs to be made.
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You notice that Democrats did not deny in any of the statements coming from the governor's
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office that illegal immigrants are receiving benefits.
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And they worded it carefully to say, well, some may, but most aren't.
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Well, that also goes for the same with the American citizen base that are eligible for
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It is supposed to help the weakest, the least, the poorest, and those that are the most in
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Yet, many Americans do not qualify for full benefits.
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So why are we giving those benefits to illegal immigrants?
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That's the question every American should be asking.
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