January 14 2026, 08:15 
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continues to express her outrage over the death of Renee Nicole Good, a queer wife and mother who was shot three times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while driving away from him.
In a recent conversation with a reporter, Ocasio-Cortez drew a direct connection between increasing health care costs and the funding ICE has been allotted to wage its terror campaign in blue cities.
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“We’re seeing what they are doing with this reckless explosion in funding, and mind you… I want everybody to understand: The cuts to your healthcare are what’s paying for this. All that extra money that everybody’s paying right now in their premiums… Nearly a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE.”
“So understand how these dots connect,” she continued. “You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. That is what this administration is doing. That’s what the Republican party did.”
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. pic.twitter.com/zjgRAcyNVU
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 13, 2026
Congress’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act indeed eliminates about a trillion dollars in health care funding, which the Center for Medicare Advocacy called the largest rollback of federal health care funding in American history. Meanwhile, the bill provides ICE with $75 billion over four years. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the $11.25 billion allocated specifically for detaining immigrants marks a 400% increase over last year’s budget and exceeds the Department of Justice’s 2026 budget request for the entire federal prison system.
The bill also allocates more than $170 billion over four years to overall border and interior enforcement, more than the annual budgets of every local and state law enforcement agency in the country combined.
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