But we have provided the $16 billion that goes to the committee of jurisdiction to do the very best job they can. We also found In the U.S. Senate not too many days ago on an appropriations bill presented by Senator SnsvENs that the Senate voted by a huge margin to continue coverage for a group of legallegalresidents of the United States who happened to come here as immigrants in a legal manner and remain here legally but are not American citizens. They come under an American program of generosity. which permits family reunification. Many of them come here as grandparents and parents. The program has broken down because the sponsors who are supposed to take care or them have not taken care of them. and the law intended to do that has not been enforced for years. As a result. there are more than a few thousand disabled senior Americans who are here as legal Immigrants who are getting an SSI check every month. This budget resolution says we are providing sufficient funds so that those people will not drop off the rolls automatically on a date certain as contemplated under last years law but will continue coverago so long as they live. We have also said if there are Americans of the same condition that are here under the same circumstance that I described. if they reach the time when they are both senior and disabled. they would be entitled to SSI.
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