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'Gag': MAGA senator triggered by conservative refuting Trump's claims

Sen. Kennedy challenged testimony showing immigrants reduce government deficits by $14.5 trillion, criticizing claims of deportation as ethnic cleansing during a Senate Budget hearing.

Summary by Alternet
One of President Donald Trump’s top congressional allies, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), seemed to unintentionally go viral on Monday after he reacted emotionally to immigration statistics that contradict Trump’s agenda.“We found that they [immigrants] reduced government deficits by 14 and a half trillion dollars,” David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, told Tim Miller of The Bulwark on Monday. Bier had earlier testifi…
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Alternet broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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