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Here is a very inconvenient fact for the libtards and the illegal immigrant defenders: There is no single official ledger that isolates every dollar of housing, SNAP/EBT, Medicaid, and cash/in-kind welfare going to undocumented immigrants plus post-2020 asylum seekers and parolees. Eligibility rules, household composition (U.S.-born children), state expansions, emergency-only coverage, and NGO pass-throughs make exact accounting impossible. The figures below are a synthesis of the most-cited recent estimates (FAIR 2023 study using 2022 data, CBO surge analysis for 2023, CMS/CBO emergency Medicaid data, CIS welfare-use studies, ORR/FEMA grant totals, and city reports). They focus on the categories you named rather than education or incarceration.[](<https://t.co/XsiEywhJ9X>) **Annual spending range (federal + state + local + NGO grants reported for this purpose)** - Emergency Medicaid + state-funded coverage expansions for undocumented adults/children + labor-and-delivery costs: roughly $8–15 billion. Federal emergency Medicaid alone ran $3–6 billion per year recently and totaled about $27 billion (federal + state) from FY 2017–2023. California accounts for a large share.[](<https://t.co/VIN10YyLeD>) - SNAP/EBT, WIC, school meals, and similar nutrition programs used by households headed by non-citizens or containing U.S.-born children of undocumented parents: $6–9 billion. - Shelter/housing (hotels, congregate shelters, rental assistance via FEMA Shelter and Services Program, ORR, and city contracts): $8–20 billion at the 2022–2024 peak. New York City alone reported multi-billion-dollar outlays over two years; FEMA SSP awarded hundreds of millions annually; ORR refugee/entrant assistance rose into the $6–10 billion range. NGO contracts (Endeavors, Catholic Charities, IRC, Church World Service, etc.) absorbed a sizable fraction of those grants.[](<https://t.co/OZLEkXGiZ6>) - Other means-tested welfare (TANF child-only cases, some SSI, housing vouchers, EITC/ACTC claimed through citizen children or work-authorized parolees/asylum applicants): $5–10 billion. **Combined working estimate for the requested categories:** $30–55 billion per year in the mid-2020s, with the higher end reflecting the 2021–2024 encounter surge and generous state programs. FAIR’s broader 2023 net figure of $151 billion includes K-12 education (~$70 billion) and justice costs that you did not ask about; the narrower health/nutrition/housing/welfare slice is the $30–55 billion band. CBO’s 2023 state-and-local surge analysis found $19 billion in extra spending (education + shelter + security) against $10 billion in extra tax revenue for the ~4.4 million recent arrivals that year.[](<https://t.co/N4ppV3pf8P>) **Daily cost to U.S. taxpayers (softball midpoint)** Using a $40 billion annual midpoint for the specified programs: ≈ **$110 million per day**. A lower-bound reading of the same sources lands nearer $80 million/day; a high-bound reading that folds in more NGO hotel contracts and state Medicaid expansions lands nearer $150 million/day. These are gross outlays, not net of sales/income/payroll taxes paid by the same population (FAIR subtracted ~$32 billion in taxes from its larger total; Cato and some CBO work find a federal surplus from working-age immigrants overall). The numbers move with encounters, state policy (California, New York, Illinois expansions), and how many recent arrivals obtain work authorization or have U.S.-born children. They do not include uncompensated hospital care outside emergency Medicaid or long-run education costs for the children.

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