Dem Senators Blast Trump’s Budget, Urge DOJ To Drop ACA Case

By Emily Martin / February 18, 2020 at 6:35 PM
A group of Democratic senators sent a letter to President Donald Trump Friday (Feb. 14) urging him to direct the Department of Justice to drop its support of the high-profile Texas v. United States case challenging the Affordable Care Act after he failed to offer up alternative policies protecting people with preexisting conditions in his $4.8 trillion budget released Feb. 10. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led 44 senators in the letter to Trump...

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