From the Washington Examiner: The Trump administration is proposing to close the door left wide open by former President Joe Biden to migrants who can’t take care of themselves without going on U.S. taxpayer-funded government assistance programs.
In a rule change meant to echo 140 years of federal law before the Biden administration’s open border policies, the Trump administration would more strictly require that migrants seeking green cards show that they can live here without soaking up programs set aside for America’s poor.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that the proposed change, now out for public comment, could result in federal budget savings of $8.97 billion annually and up to $76.48 billion over 10 years.
The Trump plan would track an 1882 law that excluded from entry “any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.” While “public charge” wasn’t specifically defined, immigration officials were given general guidelines on what to look for when evaluating whether a migrant would require welfare and thus be banned from entry.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), who first reported on the new rule, said the new proposal will repeal changes made by the Biden administration in 2022.
The Biden administration’s lax policies used a “primarily dependent” standard, which was modeled on Clinton administration guidance and allows aliens to receive a broad range of public benefits so long as they do not become “primarily dependent”, CIS explained.
CIS reported in November that nearly half of all non-citizen households with children are on some sort of welfare, and at least half of those are all illegal aliens.
From @CIS_org: “Non-citizen households account for nearly one in five of all households with young children receiving WIC or SNAP. The vast majority (96 percent) of young children in these households are U.S.-born.”
Source: https://t.co/xLSddCmjXD pic.twitter.com/sH9qgVmccD— DMLNewsApp (@DMLNewsApp) November 3, 2025
Non-Citizen Households…
Any welfare: 76%
Cash: 29%
Food: 59%
Medicaid: 58%
Housing: 6%All paid for by hardworking Americans. pic.twitter.com/kmsu0zeFI7
— C3 (@C_3C_3) November 30, 2025
🚨 JUST IN: Will Cain UNLEASHES on the 3rd world migrants leeching off the US taxpayer
"Households headed by an ILLEGAL immigrant. Look at this! 59% [welfare]! 18% [cash]. 48% [food]. 39% [Medicaid]."
"The foreign-born population in the US is the highest since 1890!"
US-born… pic.twitter.com/sGLU2qAKNZ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 8, 2025
DHS Proposes New Public Charge Regulations
The new proposal repeals changes made by the Biden administration in 2022https://t.co/LQAvbeLM6u via @CIS_org
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) December 8, 2025
READ MORE from the Washington Examiner.
Trump wants to stop migrants coming to US for freebies
In latest challenge to ‘public charge’ rules, DHS predicts billions in savings
And why? @CIS_org analysis of federal data shows tons of kids of illegals on WIC and SNAPhttps://t.co/js2EgP7hp1 via @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/bNirvSuWtS
— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) December 8, 2025
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