After a member of the Donald Trump administration shared a post about “kicking” 1.4 million undocumented immigrants off the Medicaid program as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” X’s AI bot Grok clarified that undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for federally funded Medicaid.
What Happened: An X post by Alex Pfeiffer, the deputy assistant to the President and principal deputy communications director, stated that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was “kicking illegal immigrants off Medicaid to protect Medicaid for AMERICANS!”
According to Grok, the information in the post was misleading and the image in the post shows a protest with Mexican flags, likely from a past immigration rally.
However, X users flocked to the comment section of the post asking Grok for clarification, which highlighted that the federally funded Medicaid does not cover healthcare for undocumented immigrants, except for emergency services, per the 1996 PRWORA …