MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhl blamed Republicans on Friday for allowing a federal children’s health program to expire, repeating a claim that has reverberated across the internet and national media in recent days.

The Washington Post “Fact Checker” column earlier this week chided late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for making a similar claim.

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“Right now, the Children’s Health Insurance Program [CHIP] has run out and Republicans are saying they don’t currently have the money for it, and they’re going to get to it,” Ruhl said, adding that some states already have sounded the alarm.

“Children will be without health insurance,” she said.

Ruhl appeared particularly incensed by President Donald Trump’s comments earlier in the day, knocking Democrats as he talked up the GOP tax plan that would double the child tax credit.

“The Democrats have done nothing in terms of children, in terms of child tax credit,” the president told reporters. “We’re putting in a tremendous child tax credit, and it is increasing on a daily basis.”

Demanded Ruhl, “So on what basis is the president making the argument?”

Earlier, Ruhl lamented that Republican tax writers found a way to cut the top corporate tax rate to 21 percent.

“But they can’t seem to find the money to help the poorest Americans,” she said. “What’s the rational behind that?”

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But Ruhl misstated a basic fact: It’s Democrats, not Republicans, holding up the CHIP program. The House of Representatives last month voted along party lines 242-174 to renew the federal-state health program.

The Washington Post “Fact Checker” noted the CHIP debate is unrelated to the tax debate.

Democrats objected to the Republican approach for paying for the renewal by imposing higher premiums on Medicare recipients making more than $500,000 a year, cutting funding from an Obamacare public health fund, and shrinking the grace period for Affordable Care Act customers who fail to pay their premiums.

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said at the time it was “ironic and cynical” for Democrats to oppose the CHIP renewal because they had supported using the public health fund to pay for other spending measures.

The bill currently sits in the Senate logjam, with uncertain prospects because of the need to attract at least eight Democratic votes to break a filibuster.

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Kimmel, appearing on his program earlier in the week with his young child — who suffers from a heart condition — accused Republicans of using CHIP as a “bargaining chip” to pass cuts for “billionaire and millionaire donors.”

But Washington Post journalist Glenn Kessler, who writes the “Fact Checker” column, noted the CHIP debate is unrelated to the tax debate. He also wrote that no one has advocated killing the program and that there appears to be little long-term risk that states would not be able to cover children who are currently enrolled.

“Both the House and Senate have signaled they support reauthorization of CHIP,” he wrote. “The impasses over funding had led to some uncertainty in a handful of states, but there is no immediate crisis.”

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