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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continues to express her outrage over the death of Renee Nicole Good, a queer wife and mother who was shot three times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while driving away from him. In a recent conversation with a reporter, Ocasio-Cortez drew a direct connection between increasing health care costs and the funding ICE has been allotted to wage its terror campaign in blue cities. > * * * > > ## Related > > AOC says ICE has become an “anti-civilian, paramilitary” org after an agent murdered a queer woman > > * * * “We’re seeing what they are doing with this reckless explosion in funding, and mind you… I want everybody to understand: The cuts to your healthcare are what’s paying for this. All that extra money that everybody’s paying right now in their premiums… Nearly a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE.” “So understand how these dots connect,” she continued. “You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. That is what this administration is doing. That’s what the Republican party did.” > ### Insights for the LGBTQ+ community > > Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. > > Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. > > Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. > > Email Frequency > > Email * > > Frequency * > > * Daily Brief > * Week in Review > * Week in Good News > > > Sign Up > AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. pic.twitter.com/zjgRAcyNVU > > — Acyn (@Acyn) January 13, 2026 Congress’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act indeed eliminates about a trillion dollars in health care funding, which the Center for Medicare Advocacy called the largest rollback of federal health care funding in American history. Meanwhile, the bill provides ICE with $75 billion over four years. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the $11.25 billion allocated specifically for detaining immigrants marks a 400% increase over last year’s budget and exceeds the Department of Justice’s 2026 budget request for the entire federal prison system. The bill also allocates more than $170 billion over four years to overall border and interior enforcement, more than the annual budgets of every local and state law enforcement agency in the country combined. _Subscribe to the**LGBTQ Nation newsletter** and be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide._ https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-aoc-says-rising-healthcare-costs-are-funding-ice-you-get-screwed-over-to-pay-a-bunch-of-thugs/