He pointed first to programs under the Biden administration that reimbursed hospitals for treating undocumented immigrants.

“That’s bad for American citizens who want to use those services. It’s also bad for American taxpayers, who don’t want to pay for illegal aliens to use those services,” he said. According to Vance, the Trump administration shut down that program in its “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but Democrats want it restored — at a projected cost of “hundreds of billions of dollars.”

The vice president also highlighted parole programs enacted under Biden, which he said granted mass entry to illegal immigrants by reclassifying them as parolees. Those parolees, he noted, became eligible for taxpayer-funded health benefits.

“We turned that off as well,” Vance said. “Democrats want to turn it back on.”

Framing the dispute as a hostage situation, Vance